Miloslav

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Милослав in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Miloslav is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Slovak given name2.7K records spelled Miloslav3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovakia

  Also written Míloslav

32 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●

Miloslav 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, "sweet glory."

  as a word·A 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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 19 years between 1999–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Miloslav Fleischmannb. 1886CZCzech ice hockey player (1886–1955)
• Miloslav Kabelacb. 1908CZCzech composer and conductor (1908–1979)
• Miloslav Pokornýb. 1926CZCzechoslovak ice hockey player (1926–1948)
• Miloslav Charouzdb. 1928CZCzech ice hockey player (1928–2001)
• Miloslav Vlkb. 1932CZCzech Catholic Cardinal (1932–2017)
• Miloslav Lutherb. 1945SKSlovak film director and screenwriter
• Miloslav Hořavab. 1961CZCzech ice hockey player and coach
• Miloslav Mečířb. 1964SKa Slovak tennis player and trainer
• Miloslav Hořavab. 1982CZCzech ice hockey player
• Miloslav Mečíř, Jr.b. 1988SKSlovak tennis player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 78 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Miloslav?

We estimate roughly 66 thousand people bear Miloslav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Miloslav have the most bearers?

We estimate about 66 thousand people bear Miloslav in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled miloslav.

Where is Miloslav most common?

Miloslav is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 163 people carrying it.

How common is Miloslav compared with other names?

In the Czechia, Miloslav is the 75th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.

Is Miloslav a male or female name?

Miloslav 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.