Given name · also Old Slavonic
Břetislav
Břetislav is a masculine given name from Old Czech. It is used in Czech.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
Its Slavonic formation brings together brech (“noise, din (of battle)”) and slav (“glory”).
Břetislav’s family of names
Břetislav has an affectionate form in Bret’ka. Břetislav has a feminine form in Bretislava. In Czech usage, Břetislav has a conventional equivalent in the Latin form Brazislaus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
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.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Břetislav
- Bretislav IDuke of Bohemia from 1034 to 10551000–1055
- Bretislav IIDuke of Bohemia from 1092 to 11001056–1100
- Bretislav IIIRoman Catholic bishop and Duke of Bohemia (1193–1197)1137–1197
- Břetislav PojarCzech animator, director and university educator1923–2012
- Břetislav DolejšíCzech footballer (1928–2010)
- Břetislav BakalaCzech conductor, composer and choirmaster (1897-1958)
- Břetislav RychlíkCzech activist, documentator, actor, publicist, director, scriptwriter and university educatorborn 1958
- Břetislav BendaCzechoslovak sculptor (1897–1983)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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