Miroslav

given name · Czech · Latin script

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

Miroslav is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Miroslav är ett slaviskt namn, sammansatt av orden mir ’fred’ och slav ’ära, ryktbarhet’.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 36◐
  • SKSlovakia1 in 74
  • RSSerbia1 in 169

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

≈496K ●

across 14 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
183 ●

310K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 36 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

MiroslavLatin · Czech●1.4M records
МирославCyrillic · Ukrainian●146K records
ΜίροσλαβGreek · Greek●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Мирослав in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 5 more and Myroslav in PL Poland.

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●

recorded in Swedish

Miroslav är ett slaviskt namn, sammansatt av orden mir ’fred’ och slav ’ära, ryktbarhet’. En femininform, som också finns i Sverige, är Miroslava.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Miroslav is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#15295,506△16K rec.1 in 36296KMiroslav183
UA Ukraine#125191,638189K rec.—listedМирослав62
PL Poland#577173,239△179 rec.1 in 221176KMyroslav54
RU Russia#43861,63327K rec.—#152Мирослав129
SK Slovakia#632,8552.3K rec.——Miroslav156
BG Bulgaria#6729,2325.5K rec.——Miroslav137
RS Serbia#2718,96712K rec.—listedMiroslav72
HR Croatia#6715,55938K rec.1 in 27216KMiroslav115
SI Slovenia—3,570△136 rec.1 in 5893.6KMiroslav32
TR Türkiye—3,090169 rec.——Мирослав6
GB United Kingdom—2,5451.2K rec.—listedMiroslav76
MK North Macedonia#1772,012△28 rec.1 in 1.1K2KМирослав19

Roughly 296K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 36). 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●

  • Czech1.4M86%
  • Croatian118K7%
  • Slovak33K2%
  • Bulgarian20K1%
  • English12K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech1,397,86986%
Croatian117,8297%
Slovak32,9662%
Bulgarian20,1571%
English12,2541%

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◐

Miroslav is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name19K records spelled Miroslav9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Norway

    Languages: English, Norwegian Bokmål, Danish

    Also written Mirõslav

  • Spanish given name14K records spelled Miroslav7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Miróslav

  • a separate given name2.7K records spelled Miroslav2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Serbia, Russia

    Also written Mìroslav

  • Lithuanian given name722 records spelled Miroslav5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Miroslava, Miroslāva

  • Uzbek given name487 records spelled Miroslav4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia

    Languages: Uzbek, Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Мирослав

59 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●

Miroslav 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 Russian, de мир mir, paix ; monde et слава slava, gloire.

    as a nameRussian Names

  • In Russian, "glory of the earth, of peace."

    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●

0102030401920194019601980200031 · 1984

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Miroslav in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1913–2016
Yearrecords
19131
19171
19191
19211
19242
19282
19292
19302
19312
19324
19334
19345
19355
19366
19373
19384
19397
194010
194113
194210
19438
194418
194516
194621
194717
194811
194918
195020
195126
195223
195326
195421
195510
195613
195718
195814
195919
196016
19618
196210
196318
196419
19658
196610
19675
196810
19697
19704
19718
19723
19735
19748
19753
19766
19779
19786
19793
19803
19815
198213
198325
198431
198523
198625
198727
198822
198912
199016
199112
199210
19935
19948
19956
19965
19975
19983
19996
20003
20012
20022
20031
20043
20052
20083
20091
20101
20131
20141
20161

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 89 years between 1913–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Miroslav Krleža, b. 1893Miroslav Ondříček, b. 1934Miroslav Blažević, b. 1935Miroslav Vitouš, b. 1947Miroslav Lajčák, b. 1963Miro Cerar, b. 1963Miroslav Đukić, b. 1966Rusev, b. 1985Miroslav Raduljica, b. 1988Miroslav Stoch, b. 1989

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 67 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Miroslav
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—296K#12
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—148K#12
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—148K#12
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202116K#58
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202113K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20253.6K#78
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—3.5K#156
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.7K#8,525
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—913#358
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—900#1,760
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—832#817
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—696#1,792

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 522 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Miroslav?
We estimate roughly 496 thousand people bear Miroslav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Miroslav have the most bearers?
We estimate about 296 thousand people bear Miroslav in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled miroslav.
Where is Miroslav most common?
Miroslav is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 36 people carrying it.
How common is Miroslav compared with other names?
In the Czechia, Miroslav is the 15th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
Is Miroslav a male or female name?
Miroslav 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 Miroslav mean?
Recorded meaning: Miroslav är ett slaviskt namn, sammansatt av orden mir ’fred’ och slav ’ära, ryktbarhet’.
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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, “Miroslav” — the 15th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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