Entry № 2428 · Bulgarian origin

Desislava Desislava — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ deh-see-SLAH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Bulgarian
Meaning
"Glory-seeker"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Bulgarian)

A name that means "glory-seeker".

Desislava combines the Bulgarian desi (to find) and slava (glory) — meaning "glory-seeker" or "finder of glory." The historical Despotess Desislava (13th c.) is famous from the Bulgarian frescoes of Boyana Church.

Desislava is widely used in Bulgaria.

Glory-seeker. The Bulgarian Boyana frescoes.

The name in its native script.

Десислава
Transliteration
Desislava
Pronunciation
/ ˌdɛ.sɪˈslɑː.və /
Root
Grammatical form

What Desislava is built from.

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

slava
Slavic
“glory”

Where Desislava stands.

Desislava 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.

Desislavas before her.

Real people
Despotess Desislava
Bulgarian 13th-century noblewoman.
13th c.
In fiction
Desislava
Common in Bulgarian fiction.

Names connected to Desislava.

The number behind Desislava.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Desislava reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.