Bronislava

given name · Lithuanian · Latin script

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

Bronislava is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and Czech, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Bronisława.

rarermore common
  • LTLithuania1 in 132
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.4K
  • LVLatvia1 in 4.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈30K

across 11 countries

Sources
23

139 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 132

Lithuania

Spellings & scripts

Locally spelled Broņislava in LV Latvia.

Meaning & origin

Borrowed from Polish Bronisława.

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.

Where Bronislava is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LT Lithuania#5720,65464 rec.1 in 13221KBronislava23
CZ Czechia7,8381 in 1.4K7.8K
LV Latvia#91545813 rec.1 in 4.1K458Broņislava7
US United States27047 rec.1 in 1.2M270Bronislava16
PL Poland1291 in 297K129
SI Slovenia1281 in 16K128
BR Brazil791 in 2.7M105
MD Moldova441 in 76K44
SE Sweden90 rec.1 in 1.1M101
RU Russia77 rec.Bronislava2
NL Netherlands63 rec.1 in 2.9M62
DK Denmark31 in 2M3

Roughly 21K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 132). 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

  • Lithuanian62K54%
  • Czech37K32%
  • Ukrainian9.5K8%
  • English1.6K1%
  • Portuguese1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Lithuanian62,22254%
Czech36,79732%
Ukrainian9,5438%
English1,5981%
Portuguese1,1681%

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

Bronislava is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian given name48K records spelled Bronislava18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Czechia, Russia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Ukrainian, Czech, Russian

    Also written Броніслава, Бронислава, Браніслава, Bronisława, Broņislava

  • Portuguese given name1.6K records spelled Bronislava4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Broñislava, Brōnīslavā

  • Hungarian given name381 records spelled Bronislava2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia

    Also written Broņislava

  • Croatian given name231 records spelled Bronislava7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kazakhstan, Russia, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Бронислава

  • French given name127 records spelled Bronislava3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Broņislava

  • a separate given name107 records spelled Bronislava2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Broņislava

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

Bronislava 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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

01002003002010201520202025247 · 2008

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Bronislava in SURS — resident population given names, Slovenia, 2008–2025
Yearrecords
2008247
2009240
2010233
2011226
2012220
2013213
2014206
2015200
2016194
2017189
2018181
2019170
2020160
2021150
2022145
2023141
2024136
2025128

SI SURS — resident population given names18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

1850190019502000Bronislava Herbenová, b. 1861Bronislava Poskrebysheva, b. 1910Bronislava Jacevičiūtė, b. 1919Broņislava Martuževa, b. 1924Bronislava Kerbelytė, b. 1935Bronislava Kunkulienė, b. 1940Bronislava Volková, b. 1946Bronislava Müllerová, b. 1959Bronislava Dobiášová, b. 1998

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 29 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Bronislava
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names21K#31
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai21K#31
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 20177.8K#216
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot3.9K#240
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)3.9K#240
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020270#31,475
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2008247#370
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2009240#375
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2010233#381
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2011226#395
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2012220#407
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2013213#417

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 73 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bronislava?
We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Bronislava (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Bronislava have the most bearers?
We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Bronislava in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bronislava.
Where is Bronislava most common?
Bronislava is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 132 people carrying it.
How common is Bronislava compared with other names?
In Lithuania, Bronislava is the 57th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
Is Bronislava a male or female name?
Bronislava 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 does the name Bronislava mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Bronisława.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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, “Bronislava” — the 57th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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