It is a combination of the (Slavic) verb braniti ("to defend") and the noun mir ("the world" or "peace" in Old Slavic), and hence means "the one who defends the world/peace".
Branimir was also included in the squad for the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League campaign, in which the club reached the third qualifying round, losing 3–2 on aggregate to Ukraine’s FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
The parents of Branimir Glavaš, his father Ljubomir and his mother Zorka née Pandžić, were born in village of Drinovci, in the municipality of Grude, today's Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 2005 the Banja Luka daily newspaper Nezavisne Novine announced that it had received a letter from Milan Lukić, then still at large, in which he claimed that his brother had been killed by people who had committed crimes in Višegrad and were now "bosses" of Višegrad and Foča, Branimir Savović, Risto Perisić and Radomir Njegus.
Branko (Branimir) Šenoa (1879-1939), Croatian painter, graphic artist and art historian