Cheslav
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/tʃɪzɫɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cheslav is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 141Kas Чеслав(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 355Kas Чеслав
- LVLatvia1 in 314K
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 Cheslav 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 314K (inferred from the name graph)
597 named Czeslaw, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Чеслав in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 2 more.
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cheslav 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 597as Czeslaw | 1 in 557K | 595 | Cheslav | 23 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 355K | register #2,451 | Чеслав | 98 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Чеслав | 15 |
| BY Belarus | #224 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Чеслав | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 192as Czeslaw | 1 in 53K | 192 | — | — |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Чеслав | 1 |
| LV Latvia | — | 6 | 1 in 314K | 6 | Чеслав | 6 |
| IS Iceland | — | 6as Czeslaw | 1 in 58K | 6 | — | — |
597 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling czeslaw. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Cheslav 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.
Russian form of CZES 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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cheslav Lushchikb. 1928EEEstonian physicist of Polish origin (1928-2020)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 6 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 6 | #6,811 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Cheslav?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃɪzɫɑv/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Cheslav a male or female name?
- Cheslav 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 Cheslav have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 597 people named Czeslaw, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cheslav most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cheslav is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 314 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cheslav?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 6 people named Cheslav, about 1 in 314 thousand residents.
- How common is Cheslav compared with other names?
- In Belarus, Cheslav is the 224th most common given name of 7,499 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cheslav?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cheslavThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Cheslav” — the 224th most common given name in Belarus. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.