Meaning & origin
What it means
Hlib is a romanization of Гліб. Гліб goes back to Old Norse Guðleifr, meaning “god's heir.”
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Where it comes from
Hlib is a romanization of Гліб. Гліб comes from Old East Slavic, and ultimately from Old Norse.
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Hlib’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Hlib is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Гліб.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hlib
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