Given name & surname
Dalibor
“distance”·“to fight”
Dalibor is a masculine given name. It is used in Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dalibor is built from elements meaning “distance” and “to fight”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dalibor through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1979. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 340 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dalibor’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Dalibor has a diminutive in Libor. Dalibor has a feminine form in Dalibora. In Macedonian usage, Dalibor is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Далибор.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dalibor has relatives in 3 languages.
4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
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 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dalibor
- Dalibor StevanovićSlovenian footballerborn 1984
- Dalibor DoderSwedish handball playerborn 1979
- Dalibor BagarićCroatian basketball player (born 1980)
- Dalibor DvorskýSlovakian ice hockey playerborn 2005
- Dalibor MatanićCroatian screenwriter and directorborn 1975
- Dalibor BrozovićCroatian linguist, Slavist, dialectologist and politician (1927–2009)
- Dalibor ČuturaSerbian handball playerborn 1975
- Dalibor ŠamšalCroatian alpine skierborn 1985
- Dalibor RiccardiSammarinese politicianborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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