Boros Family History

Hungarian: from boros ‘containing wine of wine’ (a derivative of bor ‘wine’) hence possibly a nickname for a heavy drinker or a metonymic occupational name for a wine merchant or a wine producer. Hungarian: possibly also a variant of Baros, a pet form of the personal name Barnabás, the Hungarian form of Barnaby.

Czech, Slovak, Croatian and Slovenian (Boroš): nickname from a Slavicized form of Hungarian boros ‘containing wine of wine’ (see above) or alternatively a derivative of Slavic compound personal names formed with the element bor ‘to fight’ (from Old Slavic boriti se), e.g., Czech Dalibor or Bořivoj.

Polish (also Boroś): from a derivative of a personal name such as Borzysław or Bolebor (see 3 above). In North America, this surname may also be an altered form of the variant Borosz.