Jaroslav
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jaroslav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Gloria de la primavera.
- CZCzechia1 in 31(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 543
- PLPoland1 in 204as Jarosław
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 Jaroslav 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- #560 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 222 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31 (inferred from the name graph)
345,570 people
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ярослав in UA Ukraine, RU Russia and Jaroslaw in PL Poland.
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(measured from records)
Gloria de la primavera
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaroslav 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #12 | 345,570 | 1 in 31 | 346K | Jaroslav | 181 |
| PL Poland | #130 | 187,945as Jarosław | 1 in 204 | 189K | Jaroslaw | 192 |
| RU Russia | #96 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 780 | #51 | Ярослав | 184 |
| UA Ukraine | #62 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 271 | listed | Ярослав | 136 |
| SK Slovakia | #9 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 543 | — | Jaroslav | 141 |
345,570 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Jaroslav 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, var of Iaroslav.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yaroslav the Wiseb. 978UAGrand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054
- Yaroslav II of Vladimirb. 1191RUGrand Prince of Vladimir (1191-1246)
- Jaroslav Hašekb. 1883CZCzech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist (1883-1923)
- Jaroslav Heyrovskýb. 1890CZCzech chemist (1890-1967)
- Jaroslav Seifertb. 1901CZCzechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate (1901–1986)
- Jaroslav Drobnýb. 1921GBCzech tennis and ice hockey player (1921–2001)
- Jaroslav Pelikanb. 1923USUS historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale (1923–2006)
- Jan Pinkavab. 1963CZnot in their usual nameCzech animator and director
- Jaroslav Drobnýb. 1979CZCzech footballer
- Jaroslav Plašilb. 1982CZCzech 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(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 346K | #10 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 173K | #10 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 173K | #10 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 487 | #680 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 484 | #713 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2026 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2024 | — | #54 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Jaroslav mean, and where does it come from?
- Gloria de la primavera Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- Is Jaroslav a male or female name?
- Jaroslav 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 are other forms of the name Jaroslav?
- In the etymology graph, Yaroslav, Jarosław and Slava are forms of the same name in other languages; Jarek is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Jaroslav have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 346 thousand people named Jaroslav, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaroslav.
- Where is Jaroslav most common?
- Jaroslav is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 31 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jaroslav?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 345,570 people named Jaroslav, about 1 in 31 residents.
- How common is Jaroslav compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Jaroslav is the 12th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jaroslavThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Jaroslav” — the 12th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.