Branimir
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Branimir is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Bulgarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Form braniti (“to defend”) + mir (“peace”).
- HRCroatia1 in 190◐
- SISlovenia1 in 220
- RSSerbia1 in 252
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈38K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 165 ●
- 1 in 190 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
101K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Branko in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia, RS Serbia and 12 more, Бранко in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia and Бранимир in TR Türkiye.
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●
Form braniti (“to defend”) + mir (“peace”).
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #20 | 22,234 | 80K rec. | 1 in 190 | 22K | Branko | 107 |
| RS Serbia | #45 | 12,741 | 7.3K rec. | — | listed | Branko | 80 |
| SI Slovenia | #19 | 9,558△ | 458 rec. | 1 in 220 | 9.6K | Branko | 53 |
| MK North Macedonia | #89 | 3,697△ | 30 rec. | 1 in 575 | 3.7K | Бранко | 22 |
| BG Bulgaria | #539 | 2,141 | 474 rec. | — | — | Branimir | 62 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #23 | 1,460 | 101 rec. | — | — | Branko | 33 |
| US United States | — | 856 | 7.1K rec. | 1 in 389K | 2.8K | Branko | 165 |
| DE Germany | — | 627 | 561 rec. | — | 1 | Branimir | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 611 | 298 rec. | — | — | Branko | 37 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 535 | 0 rec. | — | — | Branko | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | 512 | 402 rec. | — | — | Branko | 53 |
| XK Kosovo | #210 | 404 | 215 rec. | — | 525 | Branko | 3 |
Roughly 22K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 190). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Croatian34K84%
- Bulgarian1.3K3%
- English1.1K3%
- Hungarian1K2%
- German7662%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 33,870 | 84% |
| Bulgarian | 1,327 | 3% |
| English | 1,130 | 3% |
| Hungarian | 1,005 | 2% |
| German | 766 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 26 |
| 2000 | 28 |
| 2001 | 29 |
| 2002 | 29 |
| 2003 | 30 |
| 2004 | 29 |
| 2005 | 29 |
| 2006 | 31 |
| 2007 | 31 |
| 2008 | 31 |
| 2009 | 32 |
| 2010 | 33 |
| 2011 | 33 |
| 2012 | 34 |
| 2013 | 34 |
| 2014 | 35 |
| 2015 | 39 |
| 2016 | 43 |
| 2017 | 44 |
| 2018 | 44 |
| 2019 | 48 |
| 2020 | 49 |
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●
- Branimir of Croatiab. 900HRDuke of Croatia
- Branimir Šćepanovićb. 1937MESerbian and Yugoslav writer (1937–2020)
- Branimir Štulićb. 1953MKCroatian rock musician
- Branimir Glavašb. 1956HRCroatian politician
- Branimir Brstinab. 1960RSSerbian actor
- Branimir Popovb. 1962BGBulgarian swimmer
- Branimir Vujevićb. 1974HRCroatian rower
- Branimir Bajićb. 1979BABosnia and Herzegovina association football player
- Branimir Subašićb. 1982RSSerbian footballer
- Branimir Hrgotab. 1993SESwedish association football player
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●
Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 4.8K | #215 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 4.1K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 531 | #234 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 527 | #235 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 524 | #243 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 516 | #249 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 514 | #252 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 507 | #257 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 505 | #260 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 504 | #255 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 502 | #264 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 496 | #275 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 121 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Branimir?
- We estimate roughly 38 thousand people bear Branimir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Branimir have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Branimir in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled branko.
- Where is Branimir most common?
- Branimir is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 190 people carrying it.
- How common is Branimir compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Branimir is the 20th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
- Is Branimir a male or female name?
- Branimir 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 does the name Branimir mean?
- Recorded meaning: Form braniti (“to defend”) + mir (“peace”).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Branimir” — the 20th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.