Sava (name)

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.^{[ citation needed ]} 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 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 Petrović (prince-bishop) (1702–1782), Metropolitan of Montenegro
• Sava Petrović (botanist) (1839–1889), Serbian botanist and doctor of medicine
• Sava Petrović (painter) (1788–1857), Serbian icon painter and portraitist
• Sava Ranđelović, Serbian water polo player, Olympic champion
• Sava Saračević, Serbian bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
• Sava Savanović, alleged vampire
• Sava Šumanović, Serbian painter
• Sava Tekelija, Serbian philanthropist
• Sava Vladislavich, Serbian merchant-adventurer in Russian service

Surname

• Andrei Sava (born 1991), Romanian footballer
• Constantin Sava (born 1973), best known as DJ Sava, Romanian DJ and record producer
• Facundo Sava (born 1974), Argentine footballer
• Gabriel Sava (born 1986), Romanian footballer
• George Sava (1903–1996), British surgeon and writer of Russian origin
• Iosif Sava (1933–1998), Romanian musicologist and pianist
• Maria Sava, Romanian rower
• Marius Sava (born 1978), Romanian footballer
• Mihail Sava (born 1991), Moldovan freestyle wrestler
• Răzvan Sava (born 2002), Romanian footballer
• Scott Christian Sava (born 1968), American animator
• Teodora Sava (born 2001), Romanian singer

See also

• Savva (given name)
• Saba (given name), Georgian cognate
• Sabbas
• Savo (given name)

References

1. Charlotte Mary Yonge (2004). History of Christian Names. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN   0-7661-8321-1.
2. "Name Sava". Acta Croatica. Chicago: Croatian Ancestry Limited. Retrieved 2022-10-09.