Branislav

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Branislav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From brániti (“to defend”) + slȁviti (“to celebrate”).

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 310(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 2.4K
  • SKSlovakia≈1 in 750

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 Branislav 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.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈23,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
123 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 310 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BranislavLatin(measured from records)
БраниславCyrillic(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

From brániti (“to defend”) + slȁviti (“to celebrate”).

Sources 1

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Branislav 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.

Where Branislav is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#53≈23,000 est.≈1 in 310listedBranislav85
SK Slovakia—≈7,300 est.≈1 in 750—Branislav6
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#84≈1,800 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Branislav26
HR Croatia#3791,7351 in 2.4K1.7KBranislav54
MK North Macedonia#387842as Бранислав1 in 2.5K842Branislav13

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); State Statistical Office — living population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Branislav is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United States, Serbia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Braňislav

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Branislav 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.

  • Czech: variant of Bronislav (see BRONIS AW ). Feminine form: Branislava. Pet forms: Branek m; Bra a, Branka f .

    as a word

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)

1850190019502000Branislav Nušić, b. 1864Branko Stanković, b. 1921Branislav Šoškić, b. 1922Branislav Crnčević, b. 1933Branislav Simić, b. 1935Branislav Martinović, b. 1937Branislav Lečić, b. 1955Branislav Trifunović, b. 1978Branislav Ivanović, b. 1984Branislav Mitrović, b. 1985

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 33 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Branislav
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.7K#402
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20211.3K—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Branislav mean, and where does it come from?
From brániti (“to defend”) + slȁviti (“to celebrate”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Branislav a male or female name?
Branislav 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.
What are other forms of the name Branislav?
In the etymology graph, Bronislav, Bronisław and Bronislovas are forms of the same name in other languages; Branko is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Branislav have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Branislav in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled branislav.
How common is the name Branislav?
In Croatia, the national register counted 1,735 people named Branislav in 2021, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
How common is Branislav compared with other names?
In Serbia, Branislav is the 53rd most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.

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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, “Branislav” — the 53rd most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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