Slavica

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Slavica är en sydslavisk bildning (med diminutivsuffixet -ica) till Slava, som i sin tur kan vara en kortform till namn med efterleden slav (från fornslaviskans *slava ’ära, ryktbarhet’)

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

/s̪laʋit̪s̪a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Slavica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 260(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 307
  • SISlovenia1 in 680

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 Slavica 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)

≈27,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
126 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 260 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SlavicaLatin(measured from records)
СлавицаCyrillic(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)

recorded in Swedish

Slavica är en sydslavisk bildning (med diminutivsuffixet -ica) till Slava, som i sin tur kan vara en kortform till namn med efterleden slav (från fornslaviskans *slava ’ära, ryktbarhet’). En annan form är Slavka.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Slavica 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 Slavica is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#52≈27,000 est.≈1 in 260listedSlavica56
HR Croatia#7613,7641 in 30714KSlavica66
MK North Macedonia#506,624as Славица1 in 3216.6KSlavica33
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#120≈4,300 est.≈1 in 893—Slavica19
SI Slovenia#2433,0941 in 6803.1KSlavica23

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. 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)

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

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Славица

34 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Slavica Đukić Dejanović, b. 1951Slavica Jovanovska, b. 1952Славица Спасић, b. 1953Slaja Urosevic, b. 1957Slavica Ecclestone, b. 1958Slavica Đukić, b. 1960Slavica Babamova, b. 1971Slavica Sumanska-Miteva, b. 1980Slavica Ćukteraš, b. 1985Slavica Tofilovska, b. 1990

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBok Slavica,Hi Slavica, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 41 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Slavica
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202114K#75
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202111K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20083.5K#76
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20093.5K#75
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20103.5K#78
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20113.5K#78
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20123.4K#79
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20133.4K#80
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20143.4K#82
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20153.4K#85
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20163.3K#84
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20173.3K#86

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

How do you pronounce Slavica?
A machine transcription gives /s̪laʋit̪s̪a/ (IPA) for Croatian.
What does the name Slavica mean?
Recorded meaning: Slavica är en sydslavisk bildning (med diminutivsuffixet -ica) till Slava, som i sin tur kan vara en kortform till namn med efterleden slav (från fornslaviskans *slava ’ära, ryktbarhet’).
Is Slavica a male or female name?
Slavica is a female 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 Slavica?
In the etymology graph, Slava, Slavka and Slavitsa are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Slavica have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Slavica in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled slavica.
How common is the name Slavica?
In Croatia, the national register counted 13,764 people named Slavica in 2021, about 1 in 307 residents.
How common is Slavica compared with other names?
In Serbia, Slavica is the 52nd 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, “Slavica” — the 52nd most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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