Croatian · Slavic

Borna

Pronounced BOR-nahShare

Meaning: Fight; battle

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  • 2 syllables

The story

A Croatian name with an early medieval bearer: a ninth-century duke of Croatia. Its Slavic root refers to fighting, rather than the unrelated Persian name of similar spelling.

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Rare in US records; use elsewhere may differ.

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Origins

Borna comes from Croatian and Slavic.

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