Sava (name) explained
Sava is a male personal name in South Slavic languages. Perhaps the most famous example is the Serbian medieval prince turned monk Saint Sava.[1] In Croatia, Sava is found as a male name among the Serbs and also as a female name among the Croats,[2] likewise in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a result of the tradition of naming female children after rivers - in this case, after the river Sava. It is also used in Romanian, where it is also a surname.
Given name
- Saint Sava, Serbian archbishop and saint
- Sava II, Serbian archbishop, saint and son of Saint Sava
- Sava III, Serbian archbishop and saint
- Sava II Petrović-Njegoš, Montenegrin monarch
- Sava Antić, Yugoslav footballer
- Sava Athanasiu, Romanian geologist and paleontologist
- Sava Babić, Serbian writer
- Sava Bjelanović, Serbian politician
- Sava Caracaș, Romanian army general
- Sava Dobroplodni, Bulgarian writer
- Sava Dumitrescu, Romanian pharmacologist
- Sava Grujić, Serbian soldier, statesman and diplomat
- Sava Grozdev, Bulgarian mathematician
- Sava Henția, Romanian painter
- Sava Kovačević, Yugoslav partisan
- Sava Mrkalj, Serbian linguist
- Sava Mutkurov, Bulgarian officer and politician
- Sava Ranđelović, Serbian water polo player, Olympic champion
- Sava Savanović, alleged vampire
- Sava Šumanović, Serbian painter
- Sava Tekelija, Serbian philanthropist
- Sava Vladislavich, Serbian merchant-adventurer in Russian service
Surname
See also
Notes and References
- Book: History of Christian Names. Charlotte Mary Yonge. 2004. Kessinger Publishing. 0-7661-8321-1.
- Web site: Name Sava . Acta Croatica . Croatian Ancestry Limited . Chicago . 2022-10-09 .