Ladislav

given name · Latin script

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

Ladislav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 44th most common given name. In Czech, recorded as a male given name, equivalent to English Ladislaus.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 77(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia≈1 in 582
  • DEGermany≈1 in 104K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

139,594 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
155 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 77 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LadislavLatin(measured from records)
ЛадиславCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

a male given name, equivalent to English Ladislaus

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ladislav is read(measured from records)

Ladislav is one spelling over 4 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.

  • Czech41%

    a male given name, equivalent to English Ladislaus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Slovak34%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ladislav in Slovak.

  • Croatian9.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ladislav in Croatian.

  • English8.0%

    Slavonic; glorious power; see Vladislav

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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Ladislav 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 Ladislav is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#44139,5941 in 77140KLadislav155
SK Slovakia#14≈9,300 est.≈1 in 582—Ladislav140
HR Croatia—1,0601 in 4K1.1K—1
SI Slovenia—8641 in 2.4K864—13
DE Germany—≈770 est.≈1 in 104K1Ladislav71
RS Serbia#826≈280 est.≈1 in 25K—Ladislav21

139,594 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; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given 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)

Ladislav is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Ladislaus, Ладислав

  • Greek given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Cyprus

    Also written Λαντισλαβ

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ladislav 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.

  • Glorious Power

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  • Czech: variant of VLADISLAV . Feminine form: Ladislava .

    as a word

  • In Russian, "sound glory."

    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)

175018001850190019502000František Čelakovský, b. 1799Ladislav Šaloun, b. 1870Ladislav Ženíšek, b. 1904Ladislav Mňačko, b. 1919Jan Rubeš, b. 1920Ladislav Chudík, b. 1924Ladislav Adamec, b. 1926Ladislav Vízek, b. 1955Ladislav Beran, b. 1967Ladislav Krejčí, b. 1999

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 39 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Ladislav
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—140K#35
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—70K#40
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—70K#40
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20081.4K#136
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20091.4K#139
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20101.3K#143
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20111.3K#145
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20121.3K#149
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20131.2K#153
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20141.2K#156
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20151.2K#156
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20161.1K#157

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 Ladislav mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Ladislaus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Ladislav a male or female name?
Ladislav 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 Ladislav?
In the etymology graph, Vladyslav, Vladislav and Vlad are forms of the same name in other languages; Vlado and Vladan are recorded short or pet forms.
In which country does Ladislav have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 140 thousand people named Ladislav, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ladislav.
Where is Ladislav most common?
Ladislav is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 77 people carrying it.
How common is the name Ladislav?
In Czechia, the national register counted 139,594 people named Ladislav, about 1 in 77 residents.
How common is Ladislav compared with other names?
In Czechia, Ladislav is the 44th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ladislav” — the 44th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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