Ladislaus
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A male given name from the Slavic languages
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ladislaus is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- TZTanzania
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Slavic given name Ladislaus; short form Lassei
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ladislaus is read(measured from records)
Ladislaus is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English36%
A male given name from the Slavic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German31%
from the Slavic given name Ladislaus; short form Lassei
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
) Ladislav; Ladislaw: männl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Swahili12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ladislaus in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Ladislaus is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Latinized form of the Slavic name Vladislav ‘rule of glory’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Se Laszlo.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Russian, var of Ladislav.
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)
- František Čelakovskýb. 1799CZnot in their usual nameCzech poet, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, publicist, professor, publicist, translator, writer, university educator and science writer (1799–1852)
- Ladislaus Bortkiewiczb. 1868DERussian economist and statistician (1868–1931)
- Ladislas Starevichb. 1882FRnot in their usual namePolish-Russian stop-motion animator
- Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevichb. 1886FRnot in their usual nameRussian poet, literary critic (1886–1939)
- Ladislav Mňačkob. 1919SKnot in their usual nameSlovak dramatic, politic writer and bookwriter (1919–1994)
- Vladislav Illich-Svitychb. 1934RUnot in their usual nameSoviet paleolinguist (1934–1966)
- Vladislav Volkovb. 1935RUnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut (1935–1971)
- Vladislav Tretiakb. 1952RUnot in their usual nameRussian ice hockey player
- Vladislav Galkinb. 1971RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor (1971–2010)
- Vladislav Radimovb. 1975RUnot in their usual nameRussian 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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 47 | #6,964 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 15 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 13 | #24,870 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 10 | — |
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
- Where does the name Ladislaus come from?
- from the Slavic given name Ladislaus; short form Lassei Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Ladislaus mean?
- In English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.
- Is Ladislaus a male or female name?
- Ladislaus 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 Ladislaus?
- In the etymology graph, Vladislav, Ladislao and Ladislav are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ladislaus have the most bearers?
- Ladislaus is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ladislausThe 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, “Ladislaus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.