Entry № 1591 · Slavic origin

Borislava Borislava — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bor-ee-SLAH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
Meaning
"Glory in battle"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "glory in battle".

It carries courage and honour.

It reads strong and proud, victory made glory.

Glory in battle — a Slavic name.

The name in its native script.

Borislava
Transliteration
Borislava
Pronunciation
/ bo.riˈsla.va /
Root
Grammatical form

What Borislava is built from.

Borislava is a compound name. Its parts are slava — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

slava
Slavic
“glory”

Where Borislava stands.

Borislava does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Borislavas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Borislava.

The number behind Borislava.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Borislava reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.