Entry № 1615 · Slavic origin

Branislava Branislava — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ brah-nee-SLAH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
Meaning
"Glorious defender"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "glorious defender".

It carries courage and honour.

It reads strong and proud, a guardians glory.

Glorious defender — a Slavic name.

The name in its native script.

Branislava
Transliteration
Branislava
Pronunciation
/ bra.niˈsla.va /
Root
Grammatical form

What Branislava is built from.

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

slava
Slavic
“glory”

Where Branislava stands.

Branislava 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.

Branislavas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Branislava.

The number behind Branislava.

9

The Giver

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