Jaroslava
given name · Czech · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jaroslava is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ukraine. In the Czechia it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Russian, written in the Latin script.
- CZCzechia1 in 63◐
- UAUkraine1 in 1K
- RURussia1 in 10K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈175K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 140 ●
- 1 in 63 ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
358K records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ярослава in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, TR Türkiye and 7 more and Yaroslava in PL Poland, NO Norway, IT Italy and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #109 | 307,391 | 307K rec. | — | listed | Ярослава | 56 |
| CZ Czechia | #27 | 169,112△ | 3.7K rec. | 1 in 63 | 169K | Jaroslava | 106 |
| RU Russia | #315 | 100,188 | 41K rec. | — | #170 | Ярослава | 140 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 4,200 | 183 rec. | — | — | Ярослава | 7 |
| PL Poland | #565 | 3,658△ | 51 rec. | 1 in 10K | 3.7K | Yaroslava | 28 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 1,184 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 16K | 1.2K | Ярослава | 35 |
| SK Slovakia | #359 | 866 | 133 rec. | — | — | Jaroslava | 64 |
| DE Germany | — | 511 | 447 rec. | — | 1 | Jaroslava | 61 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 497 | 393 rec. | — | listed | Jaroslava | 30 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 429 | 35 rec. | — | — | Ярослава | 10 |
| MD Moldova | — | 421△ | 13 rec. | 1 in 8K | 421 | — | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 419 | 13 rec. | — | 362 | Yaroslava | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Czech782K99%
- Russian1.5K1%
- English1.5K1%
- Slovak7871%
- German4371%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Czech | 781,814 | 99% |
| Russian | 1,510 | 1% |
| English | 1,471 | 1% |
| Slovak | 787 | 1% |
| German | 437 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jaroslava is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, pilsēta Polijā, Priekškarpatu vojevodistē, 39400 iedzīvotāju (2012. g.), pilsētas tiesības kopš 1323. g.
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 48 |
| 2000 | 46 |
| 2001 | 45 |
| 2002 | 45 |
| 2003 | 45 |
| 2004 | 44 |
| 2005 | 45 |
| 2006 | 43 |
| 2007 | 44 |
| 2008 | 43 |
| 2009 | 40 |
| 2010 | 40 |
| 2011 | 40 |
| 2012 | 40 |
| 2013 | 40 |
| 2014 | 41 |
| 2015 | 38 |
| 2016 | 38 |
| 2017 | 37 |
| 2018 | 34 |
| 2019 | 34 |
| 2020 | 34 |
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●
- Jaroslava Muchováb. 1909USCzechoslovak painter (1909-1986)
- Jaroslava Bajerováb. 1910CZCzech gymnast (1910-1995)
- Jaroslava Adamováb. 1925CZCzech actress (1925-2012)
- Jaroslava Sedláčkováb. 1946CZCzech Olympic gymnast
- Jaroslava Hanušováb. 1949CZCzech actress (1949–2016)
- Yaroslava Shvedovab. 1987RUnot in their usual nameKazakhstani tennis player
- Yaroslava Aleksandrovna Pulinovichb. 1987RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer and playwright
- Yaroslava Nikolaevab. 1995UAnot in their usual nameRussian actress of Ukrainian origin
- Yaroslava Frolovab. 1997RUnot in their usual nameRussian handball player
- Yaroslava Mahuchikhb. 2001UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian high jumper (born 2001)
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 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 169K | #27 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 85K | #31 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 85K | #31 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 216 | #36,633 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 137 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 137 | #1,043 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 107 | #703 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 72 | #1,869 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 72 | #1,869 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 53 | #33,564 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 51 | #8,506 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 50 | #11,865 |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 79 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jaroslava?
- We estimate roughly 175 thousand people bear Jaroslava (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jaroslava have the most bearers?
- Jaroslava is most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is most often spelled ярослава.
- Where is Jaroslava most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jaroslava is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 63 people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Jaroslava compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Jaroslava is the 109th most common given name of 84,999 given names recorded there.
- Is Jaroslava a male or female name?
- Jaroslava is a female 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.
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About this data
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, “Jaroslava” — the 109th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.