Jaroslav

given name · Czech · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jaroslav is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is the 59th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Slovak, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Gloria de la primavera.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 31◐
  • SKSlovakia1 in 106
  • PLPoland1 in 204

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈557K ●

across 13 countries

#650 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
200 ●

1.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 31 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

JaroslavLatin · Czech●1.6M records
ЯрославCyrillic · Russian●1.1M records
ᲘაროსლავGeorgian · Georgian●186 records
ยาโรสลาฟThai · Thai●6 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ярослав in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 9 more, Jaroslaw in US United States, GB United Kingdom, SE Sweden and 1 more, Yaroslav in PL Poland, ES Spain and Iaroslav in MD Moldova.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Gloria de la primavera

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jaroslav is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#591,199,4441.2M rec.—listedЯрослав113
RU Russia#98956,603383K rec.—#51Ярослав162
CZ Czechia#13345,570△19K rec.1 in 31346KJaroslav174
PL Poland#250187,945△9.6K rec.1 in 204189KYaroslav183
TR Türkiye—24,011552 rec.——Ярослав6
SK Slovakia#1423,0181.3K rec.——Jaroslav131
KZ Kazakhstan#49113,6039.9K rec.1 in 1.4K14KЯрослав43
GB United Kingdom—6,7914.3K rec.—listedJaroslaw98
BY Belarus#1053,9441.6K rec.—3Ярослав31
KG Kyrgyzstan#8833,737327 rec.——Ярослав15
MD Moldova#1652,851△163 rec.1 in 1.2K2.9KIaroslav11
DE Germany—2,3222K rec.—1Jaroslav94

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Czech1.6M97%
  • Slovak22K1%
  • Russian11K1%
  • English5.5K1%
  • German2.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech1,637,09597%
Slovak21,9511%
Russian11,4431%
English5,4681%
German2,5951%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jaroslav is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name2.3K records spelled Jaroslav4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Slovenia, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

    Also written Jarosláv

  • Greek given name48 records spelled Jaroslav4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, Cyprus, United States, Russia

    Also written Yaroslav, Giaroslav, Γιαροσλαβ

  • Korean given name45 records spelled Jaroslav2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written 야로슬라프

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jaroslav is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, var of Iaroslav.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05010015020002005201020152020109 · 2010

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Jaroslav in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999103
2000102
2001105
2002104
2003105
2004103
2005103
2006100
2007101
2008104
2009105
2010109
2011106
2012107
2013106
2014103
2015100
2016100
2017106
2018105
2019108
2020108

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Yaroslav the Wise, b. 978Yaroslav II of Vladimir, b. 1191Jaroslav Hašek, b. 1883Jaroslav Heyrovský, b. 1890Jaroslav Seifert, b. 1901Jaroslav Drobný, b. 1921Jaroslav Pelikan, b. 1923Jan Pinkava, b. 1963Jaroslav Drobný, b. 1979Jaroslav Plašil, b. 1982

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 48 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Jaroslav
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—346K#10
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—173K#10
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—173K#10
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020561#19,044
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—501#287
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—487#680
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026484#713
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—436#2,216
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—362#3,116
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021232#1,074
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021171—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—151#6,432

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 133 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jaroslav?
We estimate roughly 557 thousand people bear Jaroslav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Jaroslav have the most bearers?
Jaroslav is most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is most often spelled ярослав.
Where is Jaroslav most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jaroslav is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 31 people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is Jaroslav compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Jaroslav is the 59th most common given name of 84,999 given names recorded there.
Is Jaroslav a male or female name?
Jaroslav is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jaroslav mean?
Recorded meaning: Gloria de la primavera
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jaroslav” — the 59th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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