Davor

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Давор in MK North Macedonia, BG Bulgaria, RU Russia.

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●

Attested across 3 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◐

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

• Italian given name276 records spelled Davor2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Serbia, Sweden

  Also written Svinjar

• Russian given name100 records spelled Davor4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Давор

36 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●

Davor is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, before, in front of

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of German

• In German, in front of that/it

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

• Davor Domazet-Lošob. 1948HRCroatian soldier, writer and politician
• Davor Jozićb. 1960BABosnian footballer (born 1960)
• Davor Šukerb. 1968HRCroatian footballer
• Davor Dujmovićb. 1969BABosnia and Herzegovina actor (1969–1999)
• Davor Janjićb. 1969BABosnian actor
• Davor Vugrinecb. 1975HRCroatian footballer
• Davor Dominikovićb. 1978HRCroatian handball player
• Davor Kusb. 1978HRCroatian basketball player (born 1978)
• Davor Bernardićb. 1980HRCroatian politician
• Davor Štefanekb. 1985RSOlympic wrestler

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 · 272 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Davor?

We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Davor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Davor have the most bearers?

We estimate about 16 thousand people bear Davor in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled davor.

Where is Davor most common?

Davor is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 260 people carrying it.

How common is Davor compared with other names?

In Croatia, Davor is the 59th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Davor a male or female name?

Davor 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 Davor mean?

Recorded meaning: exclamation; brave