Venčeslav

given name · Latin script

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

Venčeslav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 56K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 650K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Venčeslav itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Slovenia (measured from records)

258 people, 2025

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
51 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VentseslavLatin(measured from records)
ВенцеславCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Venceslav in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia, RS Serbia, Ventseslav in BG Bulgaria, ES Spain and Венцеслав in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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.

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Venčeslav counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Venčeslav is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia2581 in 8.2K258Venceslav7
BG Bulgaria≈130 est.≈1 in 52K—Ventseslav43
HR Croatia751 in 56K75Venceslav7
RU Russia≈37 est.≈1 in 3.8M—Венцеслав51
ES Spain≈16 est.≈1 in 3.1M—Ventseslav8
RS Serbia≈11 est.≈1 in 650K—Venceslav3
MK North Macedonia7as Венцеслав1 in 304K7—1

258 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025, counting the spelling venčeslav. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Venceslav, Věnceslav, Vénceslav

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Venčeslav Marija Vrtovec, b. 1894Wenczesław Poniż, b. 1900Venčeslav Koželj, b. 1901Venčeslav Černigoj, b. 1931Venčeslav Šprager, b. 1932Venčeslav Kaučič, b. 1950Venčeslav Japelj, b. 1951Venčeslav Ogrinc, b. 1955Venčeslav Lihtenvalner, b. 2000

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(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Venčeslav
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2008406#268
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2009398#275
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2010390#287
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2011381#300
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2012368#308
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2013363#308
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2014353#322
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2015343#326
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2016334#335
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2017323#345
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2018308#361
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019300#371

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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Venčeslav a male or female name?
Venčeslav 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.
In which country does Venčeslav have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 258 people named Venčeslav, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled venceslav.
Where is Venčeslav most common?
Venčeslav is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Venčeslav?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 258 people named Venčeslav in 2025, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Venčeslav”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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