Sulibor
An old Slavic name built from two war-words: `suli-` for a pledge and `-bor` for battle, together "promised battle". It's rare enough now that most Poles have never met a Sulibor, and none were born last year.
Sulibor Pronunciation
Sulibor is pronounced soo-LEE-bor (/suˈlibɔr/).
What Sulibor means
Where Sulibor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sulibor belongs to the old Slavic stock of two-part names, the kind Poland built from a warrior vocabulary. Its second element, `-bor`, means battle or struggle. You meet the same piece in Sambor and in Racibor, whose name still marks the Silesian town of Racibórz. So the name sits among fighters.
The first part, `suli-`, points to promising or pledging. Together the elements give the short meaning of the name: promised battle. A child called Sulibor was named for a vow made toward the fight.
Today the name is rare. On a school class register it would stand out beside a row of Kacpers and Szymons. It has no standard diminutive fixed by custom, so a bearer shapes his own. The meaning stays legible in the parts: `suli-` for the pledge, `-bor` for the battle.
When Sulibor celebrates name day
Sulibor appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 3 October.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Sulibor
1 in 5336547 men in Poland is named Sulibor. 4 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #33051 among male names.
Sulibor as a middle name
Sulibor is a first name for 4 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 44/56 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5038th, between Suleyman (5) and Sulimir (5).
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#5036 Stelian5
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#5037 Suleyman5
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#5038 Sulibor5
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#5039 Sulimir5
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#5040 Sunanda5