Branislav
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Branislav is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Serbia it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Slovak, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From brániti (“to defend”) + slȁviti (“to celebrate”).
- RSSerbia1 in 282◐
- CZCzechia1 in 1.4K
- HRCroatia1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈58K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 120 ●
- 1 in 834 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
62K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Бронислав in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 2 more, Bronislav in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia, Броніслав in UA Ukraine and Бранислав in MK North Macedonia.
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●
From brániti (“to defend”) + slȁviti (“to celebrate”).
Sources 1
Attested across 9 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 45,915△ | 25 rec. | 1 in 834 | 46K | Bronislav | 18 |
| UA Ukraine | #243 | 32,135 | 32K rec. | — | — | Броніслав | 26 |
| RU Russia | #757 | 27,131 | 6.5K rec. | — | #318 | Бронислав | 120 |
| RS Serbia | #57 | 11,385 | 6.3K rec. | — | listed | Branislav | 75 |
| CZ Czechia | #230 | 7,654△ | 623 rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 7.7K | Bronislav | 75 |
| HR Croatia | #385 | 1,735 | 5.3K rec. | 1 in 2.4K | 1.7K | Branislav | 55 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,169 | 1K rec. | — | listed | Branislav | 80 |
| MK North Macedonia | #421 | 842△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 2.5K | 842 | Бранислав | 10 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #85 | 738 | 63 rec. | — | — | Branislav | 26 |
| SI Slovenia | #469 | 731△ | 32 rec. | 1 in 2.9K | 731 | Branislav | 13 |
| AU Australia | — | 612 | 554 rec. | — | 1 | Branislav | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 592 | 464 rec. | — | — | Branislav | 27 |
Roughly 46K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 834). 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●
- Croatian22K44%
- Slovak8.3K16%
- Czech3.8K7%
- English3.6K7%
- Serbian3.1K6%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 22,297 | 44% |
| Slovak | 8,287 | 16% |
| Czech | 3,752 | 7% |
| English | 3,637 | 7% |
| Serbian | 3,086 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1901 | 2 |
| 1912 | 1 |
| 1916 | 1 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1922 | 3 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 2 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1926 | 2 |
| 1927 | 3 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 2 |
| 1930 | 4 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1932 | 4 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1934 | 9 |
| 1935 | 11 |
| 1936 | 3 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1938 | 4 |
| 1939 | 11 |
| 1940 | 7 |
| 1941 | 6 |
| 1942 | 10 |
| 1943 | 4 |
| 1944 | 11 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 12 |
| 1947 | 11 |
| 1948 | 13 |
| 1949 | 23 |
| 1950 | 20 |
| 1951 | 19 |
| 1952 | 19 |
| 1953 | 21 |
| 1954 | 22 |
| 1955 | 23 |
| 1956 | 22 |
| 1957 | 17 |
| 1958 | 20 |
| 1959 | 17 |
| 1960 | 18 |
| 1961 | 18 |
| 1962 | 12 |
| 1963 | 16 |
| 1964 | 10 |
| 1965 | 10 |
| 1966 | 15 |
| 1967 | 14 |
| 1968 | 11 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 4 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1975 | 9 |
| 1976 | 4 |
| 1977 | 4 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 4 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 4 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 3 |
| 1989 | 3 |
| 1990 | 4 |
| 1991 | 3 |
| 1992 | 2 |
| 1993 | 4 |
| 1994 | 2 |
| 1995 | 3 |
| 1996 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 |
| 2000 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 95 years between 1900–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Branislav Nušićb. 1864RSSerbian writer
- Branko Stankovićb. 1921BAnot in their usual nameSerbian footballer (1921-2002)
- Branislav Šoškićb. 1922MEPresident of Montenegro
- Branislav Crnčevićb. 1933RSSerbian writer, politician (1933-2011)
- Branislav Simićb. 1935RSOlympic wrestler
- Branislav Martinovićb. 1937RSOlympic wrestler (1937-2015)
- Branislav Lečićb. 1955RSSerbian actor and politician
- Branislav Trifunovićb. 1978RSSerbian actor
- Branislav Ivanovićb. 1984RSSerbian association football player
- Branislav Mitrovićb. 1985RSSerbian water polo 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 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.7K | #402 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.3K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 733 | #221 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 732 | #226 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 731 | #230 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 730 | #218 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 724 | #229 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 721 | #226 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 707 | #487 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 694 | #220 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 672 | #946 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 666 | #217 |
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 · 193 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Branislav?
- We estimate roughly 58 thousand people bear Branislav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Branislav have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 46 thousand people bear Branislav in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bronislav.
- How common is Branislav compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Branislav is the 57th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.
- 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 does the name Branislav mean?
- Recorded meaning: From brániti (“to defend”) + slȁviti (“to celebrate”).
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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, “Branislav” — the 57th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.