Davor
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Davor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name. Recorded meaning: exclamation; brave.
- HRCroatia1 in 260(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 1.7K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 1.3K
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 Davor 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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- 1 in 260 (inferred from the name graph)
16,242 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
exclamation; brave
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Davor 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #60 | 16,242 | 1 in 260 | 16K | Davor | 139 |
| RS Serbia | #214 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Davor | 54 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #89 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Davor | 42 |
| MK North Macedonia | #198 | 1,282as Давор | 1 in 1.7K | 1.3K | Davor | 24 |
| SI Slovenia | #154 | 1,274 | 1 in 1.6K | 1.3K | Davor | 58 |
16,242 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Davor is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, before, in front of
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, in front of that/it
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Davor Domazet-Lošob. 1948HRCroatian soldier, writer and politician
- Davor Jozićb. 1960BABosnian footballer (born 1960)
- Davor Šukerb. 1968HRCroatian footballer
- Davor Dujmovićb. 1969BABosnia and Herzegovina actor (1969–1999)
- Davor Janjićb. 1969BABosnian actor
- Davor Vugrinecb. 1975HRCroatian footballer
- Davor Dominikovićb. 1978HRCroatian handball player
- Davor Kusb. 1978HRCroatian basketball player (born 1978)
- Davor Bernardićb. 1980HRCroatian politician
- Davor Štefanekb. 1985RSOlympic wrestler
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 45 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 16K | #56 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 14K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.3K | #340 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 1.3K | #157 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 1.3K | #156 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.3K | #159 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 1.3K | #158 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 1.3K | #157 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 1.3K | #154 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 1.3K | #152 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 1.2K | #153 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 1.2K | #153 |
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 Davor mean, and where does it come from?
- exclamation; brave Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- What are other forms of the name Davor?
- In the etymology graph, Davorin is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Davor have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Davor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled davor.
- Where is Davor most common?
- Davor is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 260 people carrying it.
- Is Davor a male or female name?
- Davor 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 Davor?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 16,242 people named Davor in 2021, about 1 in 260 residents.
- How common is Davor compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Davor is the 60th most common given name of 14,066 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/davorThe 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, “Davor” — the 60th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.