Dalibor is primarily a male given name of Slavic origin, but also a surname specifically in Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

. The name is popular in some Western Slavic and Southern Slavic countries, such as: Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

, Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

, Croatia

Croatia

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, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 and Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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.It means: fighting far away and it's derived from Slavic elements daleko meaning "far away" and boriti meaning "to fight".

There is a Bedřich Smetana

Bedrich Smetana

Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...

's eponymous opera, based on Slavonic mythology.

People with this given name

• Dalibor Bagarić
  Dalibor Bagaric
  Dalibor Bagarić is a Croatian professional basketball player who formerly played for the NBA's Chicago Bulls from 2000 to 2003...
  
   (born 1980), Croatian basketball player
• Dalibor Brazda
  Dalibor Brazda
  Dalibor Brazda , was a Czech/Swiss music composer, arranger, and conductor.Born in Fryšták, Moravia, he studied at the conservatory in Brno and the Academy of Music in Prague...
  
   (1921–2005), Czech-Swiss composer and conductor
• Dalibor Brozović
  Dalibor Brozovic
  Dalibor Brozović was a Croatian linguist, Slavist, dialectologist and politician. He studied the history of standard Slavic languages, especially Croatian. He was an active Esperantist since 1946, and wrote Esperanto poetry as well as translated works into the language. -Life and career:He was...
  
   (born 1927), Croatian linguist
• Dalibor Medic (born 1979), Austrian national trainer of Taekwon-Do
• Dalibor Stevanovič
  Dalibor Stevanovic
  Dalibor Stevanović Dalibor Stevanović Dalibor Stevanović ( (born 27 September 1984 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian football midfielder player, who is currently playing for FC Volyn Lutsk in the Ukrainian Premier League.- Career :...
  
   (born 1984), Slovenian football player
• Dalibor Vačkář (1906–1984), Czech composer
• Dalibor Vesely
  Dalibor Vesely
  Dalibor Vesely was born in Prague, Czech Republic in 1934. He studied engineering, architecture, art history and philosophy in Prague and in Munich and obtained his PhD from Charles University in Prague. He studied with Hans-Georg Gadamer, with whom he kept a correspondence that would last until...
  
   (born 1934), Czech architect
• Dalibor Šamšal
  Dalibor Šamšal
  Dalibor Šamšal is an alpine skier from Croatia. He has represented Croatia at the 2006 Olympics and the 2010 Olympics.-External links:...
  
   (born 1985), Croatian alpine ski racer
• Dalibor z Kozojed (died 1498), 15th century Czech knight, on whom Smetana based his 1868 opera Dalibor
• Dalibor Jedlička, Czech opera singer

People with this surname

• Jan and Vlasta Dalibor, Czech immigrants to the UK, puppeteers who made the original Pinky and Perky
  Pinky and Perky
  Pinky and Perky is an animated children's television series first broadcast by the BBC in 1957, revived in 2008 as a CGI animation.-Original series:...
  
  

External links

• http://www.behindthename.com/name/dalibor