Borislav

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Борислав in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 4 more and Borysław in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Borislav is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name2.3K records spelled Borislav5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Chile, Serbia

  Languages: Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese

  Also written Boryslav

• Romanian given name108 records spelled Borislav2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Moldova, United States, Romania, Spain

  Also written Boryslav

31 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●

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 word·A 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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 146 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Borislav?

We estimate roughly 4.0 thousand people bear Borislav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Borislav have the most bearers?

Borislav is most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is most often spelled borislav.

How common is Borislav compared with other names?

In Bulgaria, Borislav is the 65th most common given name of 20,382 given names recorded there.

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.