Ladislav

given name · Czech · Latin script

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

Ladislav is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Slovak, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Ladislaus.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 77◐
  • SKSlovakia1 in 120
  • DEGermany1 in 112K

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

≈142K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
148 ●

20K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 77 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

LadislavLatin · Czech●664K records
ЛадиславCyrillic · Russian●723 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ладислав in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, FI Finland and 1 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●

a male given name, equivalent to English Ladislaus

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Ladislav is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#35139,594△7.7K rec.1 in 77140KLadislav148
SK Slovakia#1920,4421.2K rec.——Ladislav130
GB United Kingdom—1,7351.2K rec.—listedLadislav59
UA Ukraine—1,3221.3K rec.——Ладислав19
DE Germany—1,083997 rec.—1Ladislav67
HR Croatia—1,060—1 in 4K1.1K——
SI Slovenia—864△17 rec.1 in 2.4K864—15
RU Russia—471216 rec.——Ладислав56
FR France—425368 rec.——Ladislav81
AU Australia—389348 rec.—1Ladislav43
US United States—3385.4K rec.1 in 984K338Ladislav133
CA Canada—271245 rec.——Ladislav34

Roughly 140K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 77). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Czech664K94%
  • Slovak21K3%
  • Croatian9.4K1%
  • English3.8K1%
  • Hungarian2.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech663,77694%
Slovak20,9193%
Croatian9,3621%
English3,7691%
Hungarian2,4921%

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◐

Ladislav is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name11K records spelled Ladislav12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Ladislaus, Ладислав

  • Greek given name45 records spelled Ladislav2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Λαντισλαβ

42 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●

Ladislav is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Slavonic; glorious power; see Vladislav

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  • Glorious Power

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  • Czech: variant of VLADISLAV . Feminine form: Ladislava .

    as a word

  • In Russian, "sound glory."

    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●

0204060802000200520102015202075 · 1999

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Ladislav in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199975
200072
200169
200269
200367
200463
200562
200664
200765
200868
200967
201069
201166
201265
201364
201461
201562
201662
201760
201858
201959
202057

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●

175018001850190019502000František Čelakovský, b. 1799Ladislav Šaloun, b. 1870Ladislav Ženíšek, b. 1904Ladislav Mňačko, b. 1919Jan Rubeš, b. 1920Ladislav Chudík, b. 1924Ladislav Adamec, b. 1926Ladislav Vízek, b. 1955Ladislav Beran, b. 1967Ladislav Krejčí, b. 1999

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 39 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Ladislav
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—140K#35
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—70K#40
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—70K#40
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20081.4K#136
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20091.4K#139
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20101.3K#143
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20111.3K#145
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20121.3K#149
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20131.2K#153
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20141.2K#156
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20151.2K#156
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20161.1K#157

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 · 103 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ladislav?
We estimate roughly 142 thousand people bear Ladislav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Ladislav have the most bearers?
We estimate about 140 thousand people bear Ladislav in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ladislav.
Where is Ladislav most common?
Ladislav is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 77 people carrying it.
How common is Ladislav compared with other names?
In the Czechia, Ladislav is the 35th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
Is Ladislav a male or female name?
Ladislav 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 Ladislav mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Ladislaus
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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, “Ladislav” — the 35th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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