Given name & surname
Božidar
“of God”·“gift”
Božidar is a masculine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Božidar is built from elements meaning “of God” and “gift”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Božidar is a romanization of Божидар. Божидар comes from Ancient Greek.
Explained through its name family
Božidar’s family of names
In Slovenian usage, Božidar has a feminine form in Božidara. Božidar has a conventional equivalent in the English form Theodore. Božidar has a conventional equivalent in the German form Theodor.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Božidar has relatives in 11 languages.
13 related names in 11 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- TheodoreEnglish
- TheodorGerman
- BożydarPolish
- Božidarafeminine form · Czech, Slovene
- Bozhidarequivalent
- BozsidárHungarian
- ФёдорRussian
- BogudarPolish
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People named Božidar
- Božidar JovićCroatian handball playerborn 1972
- Božidar ĐelićSerbian politician and economistborn 1965
- Bozhidar GrigorovBulgarian footballerborn 1945
- Bozhidar IskrenovBulgarian footballerborn 1962
- Božidar MaljkovićSerbian professional basketball coachborn 1952
- Božidar StanišićYugoslav water polo player (1938-2014)
- Božidar JankovićSerbian Third Army commander (1849-1920)
- Božidar DelićSerbian politician1956–2022
- Božidar SmiljanićCroatian actor (1936–2018)
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