Given name · also Old Slavonic
Bronisław
“to protect”
Bronisław is a masculine given name from Slavic, ultimately from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bronisław goes back to Proto-Slavic *borniti, meaning “to protect.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Bronisław comes from Slavic, and ultimately from Proto-Slavic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Its Slavonic formation brings together bron (“armour, protection”) and slav (“glory”).
Bronisław’s family of names
Bronisław has an affectionate form in Branek. Bronisław shares a linguistic root with Branislav. In Polish usage, Bronisław has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Bronislao.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bronisław has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
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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 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bronisław
- Bronisław KomorowskiPolish politician; President of Poland (2010–2015)born 1952
- Bronisław MalinowskiPolish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884–1942)
- Bronisław GeremekPolish social historian and politician (1932–2008)
- Branislaw TarashkyevichBelarusian public figure, politician, and linguist (1892—1938)
- Bronisław HubermanPolish musician (1882–1947)
- Bronisław MalinowskiPolish athlete (1951–1981)
- Bronisław PiłsudskiPolish cultural anthropologist (1866–1918)
- Bronisław KaperPolish composer (1902-1983)
- Bronisław KnasterXXth century Mathematician (1893–1980)
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