Tomislav

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Томислав in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia, 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●

Attested across 26 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◐

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

• Russian given name207 records spelled Tomislav9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Томислав, Томіслав, Таміслау

• Hebrew given name122 records spelled Tomislav2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, United States, Serbia, Switzerland

  Also written טומיסלב

39 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●

Tomislav 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, var of Polislav or Tomeslav.

  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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 79 years between 1926–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tomislav Ivićb. 1933HRCroatian football player and manager (1933-2011)
• Tomislav Nikolićb. 1952RS4th President of the Republic of Serbia
• Tomislav Osmanlib. 1956MKMacedonian prose writer, playwright, screenplay writer, journalist
• Tomislav Karamarkob. 1959HRCroatian politician
• Tomislav Ivkovićb. 1960HRCroatian footballer
• Tomislav Ercegb. 1971HRCroatian association football player
• Tomislav Marićb. 1973HRCroatian association football player
• Tomislav Butinab. 1974HRCroatian footballer
• Tomislav Dujmovićb. 1981HRCroatian footballer
• Tomislav of CroatiaKing of Croatia

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 · 368 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tomislav?

We estimate roughly 44 thousand people bear Tomislav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Tomislav have the most bearers?

We estimate about 39 thousand people bear Tomislav in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tomislav.

Where is Tomislav most common?

Tomislav is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 108 people carrying it.

How common is Tomislav compared with other names?

In Croatia, Tomislav is the 10th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Tomislav a male or female name?

Tomislav 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 Tomislav mean?

Recorded meaning: im 20. Jh. entlehnter männl.