Rastislav
given name · Slovak · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rastislav is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ukraine. In Slovakia it is the 67th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Slovak and Czech, written in the Latin script.
- CZCzechia1 in 321◐
- SKSlovakia1 in 367
- UAUkraine1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈44K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 144 ●
- 1 in 321 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
331K records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ростислав in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 8 more, Rostislav in CZ Czechia, US United States, BG Bulgaria and 3 more and Rostyslav in PL Poland, ES Spain, CA Canada 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 8 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 | #113 | 260,411 | 255K rec. | — | listed | Ростислав | 85 |
| RU Russia | #225 | 176,420 | 64K rec. | — | #129 | Ростислав | 144 |
| CZ Czechia | #117 | 33,318△ | 2.6K rec. | 1 in 321 | 33K | Rostislav | 112 |
| PL Poland | #456 | 6,839△ | 196 rec. | 1 in 5.6K | 6.8K | Rostyslav | 45 |
| SK Slovakia | #67 | 6,663 | 894 rec. | — | #17 | Rastislav | 123 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 2,958 | 98 rec. | — | — | Ростислав | 4 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 1,684 | 2K rec. | 1 in 11K | 1.7K | Ростислав | 34 |
| BG Bulgaria | #676 | 1,575 | 370 rec. | — | — | Rostislav | 73 |
| BY Belarus | #198 | 854 | 243 rec. | — | 1 | Ростислав | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 776 | 468 rec. | — | — | Rastislav | 37 |
| MD Moldova | #291 | 677△ | 41 rec. | 1 in 5K | 677 | Rostislav | 8 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 621 | 83 rec. | — | — | Ростислав | 11 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Slovak6.6K46%
- Czech5.6K38%
- English8246%
- Croatian2131%
- German1991%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Slovak | 6,639 | 46% |
| Czech | 5,569 | 38% |
| English | 824 | 6% |
| Croatian | 213 | 1% |
| German | 199 | 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●
Rastislav 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, "growing 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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 44 |
| 2009 | 40 |
| 2010 | 36 |
| 2011 | 36 |
| 2012 | 34 |
| 2013 | 33 |
| 2014 | 34 |
| 2015 | 33 |
| 2016 | 31 |
| 2017 | 31 |
| 2018 | 31 |
| 2019 | 31 |
| 2020 | 29 |
| 2021 | 28 |
| 2022 | 30 |
| 2023 | 29 |
| 2024 | 30 |
| 2025 | 30 |
SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Saint Savab. 1169RSnot in their usual namefirst archbishop of Serbs
- Milan Rastislav Štefánikb. 1880FRSlovak politician, diplomat, French Army general and astronomer (1880-1919)
- Rastislav Káčerb. 1965SKSlovak diplomat, minister of foreign affairs of the Slovak Republic
- Rastislav Pavlikovskýb. 1977SKSlovak ice hockey player
- Rastislav Beličákb. 1977SKSlovak footballer
- Rastislav Božikb. 1977SKSlovak football manager
- Arcibiskup Rastislavb. 1978SKSlovak archbishop
- Rastislav Staňab. 1980SKSlovak ice hockey player
- Rastislav Špirkob. 1984SKSlovak ice hockey player
- Rastislav Dejb. 1988SKSlovak ice hockey 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●
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 890 | #513 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 445 | #576 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 445 | #563 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 87 | #5,594 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 52 | #11,797 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 44 | #882 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 40 | #945 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 36 | #1,032 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 36 | #1,044 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 35 | #4,328 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 34 | #1,097 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 34 | #1,072 |
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 · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rastislav?
- We estimate roughly 44 thousand people bear Rastislav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rastislav have the most bearers?
- Rastislav is most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is most often spelled ростислав.
- Where is Rastislav most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rastislav is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 321 people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Rastislav compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Rastislav is the 113th most common given name of 84,999 given names recorded there.
- Is Rastislav a male or female name?
- Rastislav 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Rastislav” — the 113th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.