Yaroslav
given name · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yaroslav is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is the 59th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Ukrainian Яросла́в (Jarosláv) or Russian Яросла́в (Jarosláv).
- CZCzechia1 in 31◐
- SKSlovakia1 in 106
- PLPoland1 in 204
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈557K ●
- #650 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 200 ●
- 1 in 31 ◐
across 13 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
1.6M records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ярослав in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 9 more, Jaroslav in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia, NO Norway and 7 more, Jaroslaw in US United States, GB United Kingdom, SE Sweden and 1 more and Iaroslav in MD Moldova.
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●
Transliteration of Ukrainian Яросла́в (Jarosláv) or Russian Яросла́в (Jarosláv).
Sources 1
Attested across 9 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 | #59 | 1,199,444 | 1.2M rec. | — | listed | Ярослав | 113 |
| RU Russia | #98 | 956,603 | 383K rec. | — | #51 | Ярослав | 162 |
| CZ Czechia | #13 | 345,570△ | 19K rec. | 1 in 31 | 346K | Jaroslav | 174 |
| PL Poland | #250 | 187,945△ | 9.6K rec. | 1 in 204 | 189K | Yaroslav | 183 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 24,011 | 552 rec. | — | — | Ярослав | 6 |
| SK Slovakia | #14 | 23,018 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Jaroslav | 131 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #491 | 13,603 | 9.9K rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 14K | Ярослав | 43 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,791 | 4.3K rec. | — | listed | Jaroslaw | 98 |
| BY Belarus | #105 | 3,944 | 1.6K rec. | — | 3 | Ярослав | 31 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #883 | 3,737 | 327 rec. | — | — | Ярослав | 15 |
| MD Moldova | #165 | 2,851△ | 163 rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 2.9K | Iaroslav | 11 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,322 | 2K rec. | — | 1 | Jaroslav | 94 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Ukrainian200K57%
- Polish84K24%
- Russian37K11%
- English4.9K1%
- Spanish4.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 199,849 | 57% |
| Polish | 84,089 | 24% |
| Russian | 37,295 | 11% |
| English | 4,872 | 1% |
| Spanish | 4,713 | 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●
Yaroslav 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 English, A transliteration of the Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Яросла́в (Jarosláv).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Russian form of JAROS AW .
as a word
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 |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 16 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 13 |
| 2016 | 17 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 16 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2025 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 25 years between 1998–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yaroslav the Wiseb. 978UAGrand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054
- Yaroslav Osmomyslb. 1119UAPrince of Halych
- Yaroslav II of Kievb. 1132UAGrand Prince of Kiev
- Jarosław, Duke of Opole, bishop of Breslaub. 1143PLnot in their usual namePolish bishop
- Yaroslav II of Vladimirb. 1191RUGrand Prince of Vladimir (1191-1246)
- Yaroslav of Tverb. 1230Grand Prince of Vladimir (1230-1272)
- Jaroslav Rudnyckyjb. 1910CAnot in their usual nameUkrainian Canadian linguist and lexicographer
- Yaroslav Stetskob. 1912UAPrime Minister of Ukraine (1912–1986)
- Yaroslav Romanchukb. 1966BYBelarusian economist and politician
- Yaroslav Rakitskiyb. 1989UAUkrainian footballer
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 48 sources across 28 countries.
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 · 197 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yaroslav?
- We estimate roughly 557 thousand people bear Yaroslav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yaroslav have the most bearers?
- Yaroslav is most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is most often spelled ярослав.
- Where is Yaroslav most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yaroslav is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 31 people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Yaroslav compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Yaroslav is the 59th most common given name of 84,999 given names recorded there.
- Is Yaroslav a male or female name?
- Yaroslav 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 Yaroslav mean?
- Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Ukrainian Яросла́в (Jarosláv) or Russian Яросла́в (Jarosláv).
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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, “Yaroslav” — the 59th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.