Radoslav

given name · Czech · Latin script

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

Radoslav is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Slovakia it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Bulgarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Of common Slavic origin, roughly translating as "eager glory," from Proto-Slavic *radъ (“glad, happy”) + *slava (“glory”).

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 333
  • RSSerbia1 in 801
  • BGBulgaria1 in 1.8K

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

≈113K

across 13 countries

2

recorded for this name

Sources
140

21K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 370

Poland

Spellings & scripts

RadoslavLatin · Czech26K records
РадославCyrillic · Bulgarian9.8K records

Locally spelled Радослав in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, MK North Macedonia and 2 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

Of common Slavic origin, roughly translating as "eager glory," from Proto-Slavic *radъ (“glad, happy”) + *slava (“glory”). Compare Bulgarian Радослав (Radoslav), whence the surname Радославов (Radoslavov).

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Radoslav is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland103,46984 rec.1 in 370104KRadoslav29
BG Bulgaria#7824,1484.7K rec.Radoslav140
SK Slovakia#617,351527 rec.Radoslav109
CZ Czechia#2645,240531 rec.1 in 2K5.2KRadoslav80
RS Serbia#1254,0082.3K rec.listedRadoslav35
GB United Kingdom1,225799 rec.listedRadoslav55
HR Croatia#4811,1594K rec.1 in 3.6K1.2KRadoslav34
RU Russia1,135737 rec.#2,954Радослав72
DE Germany1,095996 rec.1Radoslav73
NO Norway60812 rec.1 in 9K1.8KRadoslav5
US United States5833.2K rec.1 in 571K583Radoslav95
SE Sweden40923 rec.1 in 25K409Radoslav7

Roughly 103K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 370). 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

  • Czech26K36%
  • Bulgarian16K23%
  • Croatian12K17%
  • Slovak7.5K10%
  • English2.4K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech26,32136%
Bulgarian16,45523%
Croatian12,27817%
Slovak7,45710%
English2,4353%

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

Radoslav 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, "joyous 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

02550751002000200520102015202089 · 2019

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Radoslav in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199950
200050
200149
200249
200350
200453
200555
200653
200755
200858
200957
201061
201165
201265
201367
201468
201573
201675
201781
201885
201989
202086

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

100012001400160018002000Stefan Radoslav of Serbia, b. 1192Radoslav Katičić, b. 1930Radoslav Milenković, b. 1958Radoslav Látal, b. 1970Radoslav Nesterović, b. 1976Radoslav Kováč, b. 1979Radoslav Zabavník, b. 1980Radoslav Židek, b. 1981Radoslav Velikov, b. 1983Radoslav Kirilov, b. 1992

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 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Radoslav
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 20175.2K#255
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot2.6K#282
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)2.6K#282
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.2K#505
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021844
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2010336#317
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2009335#312
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2008335#313
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2012328#326
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2011323#322
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2014322#340
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2013321#333

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 · 178 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Radoslav?
We estimate roughly 113 thousand people bear Radoslav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Radoslav have the most bearers?
We estimate about 103 thousand people bear Radoslav in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled radoslav.
How common is Radoslav compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Radoslav is the 61st most common given name of 9,629 given names recorded there.
Is Radoslav a male or female name?
Radoslav 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 Radoslav mean?
Recorded meaning: Of common Slavic origin, roughly translating as "eager glory," from Proto-Slavic *radъ (“glad, happy”) + *slava (“glory”).
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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, “Radoslav” — the 61st most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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