Rastislav

given name · Latin script

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

Rastislav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia≈1 in 764(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States≈1 in 2.4M
  • CZCzechia1 in 12K

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.

Slovakia (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,100 people, est.

Sources
132 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 764 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rastislav 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 Rastislav is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SK Slovakia#62≈7,100 est.≈1 in 764#17Rastislav132
CZ Czechia#6618901 in 12K890Rastislav56
RS Serbia—≈210 est.≈1 in 33K—Rastislav16
GB United Kingdom—≈160 est.≈1 in 413K—Rastislav49
US United States—≈140 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Rastislav81
SI Slovenia—301 in 70K30—2
CY Cyprus—≈15 est.≈1 in 84K—Rastislav5

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: the sk-minv-names register; MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)

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

  • Russian given name68 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Czechia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Czech

    Also written Ростислав, Rostyslav, Rostislav, Ростіслав, Растислав

36 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)

Rastislav 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, "growing 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)

100012001400160018002000Saint Sava, b. 1169Milan Rastislav Štefánik, b. 1880Rastislav Káčer, b. 1965Rastislav Pavlikovský, b. 1977Rastislav Beličák, b. 1977Rastislav Božik, b. 1977Arcibiskup Rastislav, b. 1978Rastislav Staňa, b. 1980Rastislav Špirko, b. 1984Rastislav Dej, b. 1988

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 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Rastislav
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—890#513
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—445#576
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—445#563
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200844#882
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200940#945
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201136#1,032
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201036#1,044
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201434#1,097
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201234#1,072
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201533#1,128
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201333#1,091
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201931#1,249

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 Rastislav a male or female name?
Rastislav 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 Rastislav have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Rastislav in Slovakia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rastislav.
How common is the name Rastislav?
In Czechia, the national register counted 890 people named Rastislav, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Rastislav compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Rastislav is the 62nd most common given name of 9,943 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, “Rastislav” — the 62nd most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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