Borislav
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Borislav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common given name.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 773(inferred from the name graph)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 1.7K
- HRCroatia1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Borislav itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 773 (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Борислав in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Borislav counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #47 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 773 | — | Borislav | 144 |
| RS Serbia | #169 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Borislav | 48 |
| HR Croatia | #326 | 2,122 | 1 in 2K | 2.1K | Borislav | 64 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 84K | #863 | Борислав | 123 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #215 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Borislav | 20 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 381 | 1 in 5.5K | 381 | Borislav | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Borislav is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "glorious fight." See also Boris.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Borislav Stankovićb. 1925RSSerbian basketball player and coach
- Borisav Jovićb. 1928RSnot in their usual nameSerbian diplomat (1928–2021)
- Borislav Pekićb. 1930GBSerbian writer (1930–1992)
- Borislav Ivkovb. 1933RSSerbian chess player (1933–2022)
- Borislav Paravacb. 1943BABosnian Serb politician
- Boro Stjepanovićb. 1946BAnot in their usual nameBosnian Herzegovinian actor
- Borislav Cvetkovićb. 1962RSCroatian-Serbian footballer
- Borislav Mihaylovb. 1963BGBulgarian footballer (1963–2026)
- Borislav Gidikovb. 1965BGBulgarian weightlifter
- Borislav Tsonevb. 1995BGBulgarian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 2.1K | #353 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.6K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 409 | #330 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 403 | #326 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 397 | #283 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 395 | #283 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 393 | #337 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 391 | #290 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 391 | #279 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 391 | #278 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 385 | #347 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 382 | #326 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Borislav have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Borislav in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled borislav.
- Is Borislav a male or female name?
- Borislav is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Borislav?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 2,122 people named Borislav in 2021, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Borislav compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Borislav is the 47th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/borislavThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Borislav” — the 47th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.