Given name
Dobroslav
“good, right”·“glory, renown”
Dobroslav is a masculine given name from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Czech, Old Czech, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dobroslav is built from elements meaning “good, right” and “glory, renown”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Slavic *Dobroslavъ, built from Proto-Slavic *dobrъ (“good, right”) + *slàva (“glory, renown”) + *-ъ.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Dobroslav’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Dobroslav has a diminutive in SLAVKO. In Czech usage, Dobroslav has a feminine form in Dobroslava. In Russian usage, Dobroslav is a transliteration of Доброслав.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dobroslav has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
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Nicknames & forms 4
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 Dobroslav
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