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    The first name Bohuslav

    A boy’s name meaning “to god”, “glory”, “glory to god”.

    3 syllables Male

    Meaning and origin

    Bohuslav means “to god”, “glory”, “glory to god”.

    From Ukrainian Богусла́в (Bohusláv), equivalent to бо́гу (bóhu, “to God”) + -слав (-slav, “glory”), literally “glory to God”.

    More names that mean famous, god.

    From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    Nicknames and spellings

    Other spellings and forms

    • Boguslav

    Famous people named Bohuslav

    18 on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Bohuslav Sobotka
      Czech politician, born 1971
    • Bohuslav Martinů
      Czech composer (1890–1959)
    • Bohuslav Balbín
      Czech baroque writer, philosopher, historian, linguist, religion writer, educator, writer,, 1621–1688
    • Josef Bohuslav Foerster
      Czech composer and educator (1859–1951)
    • Bohuslav Karlík
      Czechoslovak canoeist, speed canoeist and water slalomist (1908–1996)
    • Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský
      Czech music educator, composer, organist and Roman Catholic priest (1684-1742)
    • Bohuslav Brauner
      Czech chemist (1855–1935)
    • Bohuslav Ebermann
      Czech ice hockey player, born 1948
    • Bohuslav Šťastný
      Czech ice hockey player, born 1949
    • Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic
      Czech poet, traveller, humanist and satiricist, 1461–1510
    • Bohuslav Svoboda
      Czech politician and physician, born 1944
    • Bohuslav Havránek
      Czech academic, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, professor, publicist, trans, 1893–1978

    Questions

    What does the name Bohuslav mean?
    Bohuslav means “to god”, “glory”, “glory to god”.
    What are other spellings of Bohuslav?
    Boguslav.