Given name · Ukrainian
Броніслав
“to protect, to defend”
Броніслав (Bronisláv) is a masculine given name from Proto-Slavic, meaning “to protect, to defend.” It is used in Ukrainian.
UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Bronìslav.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Proto-Slavic *borniti (“to protect, to defend”), built from Ukrainian броня́ + -слав.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Броніслав’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Броніслав can be written in the Roman alphabet as Bronisláv. In Ukrainian usage, Броніслав has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Bronisław. In Ukrainian usage, Броніслав has a transliteration in Bronìslav.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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