Given name
Bonifác
“good fortune”·“man of good omen, of good fortune”
Bonifác is a masculine given name from Late Latin. It is used in Czech and Slovak.
Original LatinBonifatius
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bonifác is built from elements meaning “good fortune” and “man of good omen, of good fortune”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Late Latin Bonifātius, built from Latin bonus + fātum.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bonifác’s family of names
In Czech usage, Bonifác has a diminutive in Bonifácek. In Czech usage, Bonifác has a conventional equivalent in the French form Boniface. In Czech usage, Bonifác has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form BONIFACY.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bonifác has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Bonifác comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
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 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- BonifatiusLatin, German
- BonifaceFrench, English
- Bonifacioequivalent
- Bonifaciusequivalent
- Bonifaciequivalent
- BonifacyPolish
- ΕυτύχηςGreek
- ΒονιφάτιοςGreek
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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