Boris: Surname History and Family Crest

People named Boris carry a Hungarian surname with a long history. Smith's 1956 dictionary gives the meaning “descendant of. Boris (stranger)”.

• Spanish statistics put 95 people with Boris in first position and 72 in second. Each Spaniard has two surnames, so the same name is counted once as first and once as second surname. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Boris with 2,780 bearers, at rank 11,348.
• It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear.

Arms associated with the name

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Boris, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms. Get the complete Boris report, with a museum-style coat of arms.