Given name
Svatopluk
“sacred, holy”·“troop, army”
Svatopluk is a masculine given name from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Czech.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Svatopluk is built from elements meaning “sacred, holy” and “troop, army”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Svatopluk’s family of names
In Czech usage, Svatopluk has a diminutive in SVATA. Svatopluk shares a linguistic root with Świętopelk. In Czech usage, Svatopluk has a conventional equivalent in the Slovak form Svätopluk.
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Around the world
Svatopluk has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
10 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Świętopełksee also · Polish
- Świętopelkcognate
- Svanteequivalent
- ΣφεντίπολγοςAncient Greek
- ΣφεντίβολγοςAncient Greek
- ΣφενδίπολκοςAncient Greek
- SvätoplukSlovak
- ŚwiatopełkPolish
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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.
People named Svatopluk
- Svatopluk I of Moraviaruler of Moravia840–894
- Svatopluk ČechCzech poet, publicist and bookwriter (1846–1908)
- Svatopluk PluskalCzechoslovak footballer (1930–2005)
- Svatopluk, Duke of BohemiaDuke of Bohemia1100–1109
- Svatopluk BenešCzech actor (1918-2007)
- Svatopluk InnemannCzech film director and cinematographer (1896–1945)
- Svatopluk BuchtaCzech bikerborn 1966
- Svatopluk PoljakCzech mathematician (1951-1995)
- Svatopluk HavelkaCzech music educator and composer1925–2009
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