Iaroslava
given name · Latin script
Meaning: "glorious light." Fem of Iaroslav
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɪəɹəsɫɑvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iaroslava is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common given name.
- CZCzechia1 in 63as Jaroslava(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1Kas Ярослава
- RURussia≈1 in 6.2Kas Ярослава
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 Iaroslava 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
169,112 named Jaroslava
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ярослава in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, Jaroslava in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia and Yaroslava 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)"glorious light." Fem of Iaroslav.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iaroslava 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 | #86 | 169,112as Jaroslava | 1 in 63 | 169K | Jaroslava | 107 |
| UA Ukraine | #113 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Ярослава | 66 |
| RU Russia | #312 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | register #170 | Ярослава | 159 |
| PL Poland | — | 3,658as Yaroslava | 1 in 10K | 3.7K | Yaroslava | 25 |
| SK Slovakia | #372 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Jaroslava | 68 |
| MD Moldova | — | 421 | 1 in 8K | 421 | Iaroslava | 6 |
169,112 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); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jaroslava Muchováb. 1909USnot in their usual nameCzechoslovak painter (1909-1986)
- Jaroslava Bajerováb. 1910CZnot in their usual nameCzech gymnast (1910-1995)
- Jaroslava Adamováb. 1925CZnot in their usual nameCzech actress (1925-2012)
- Jaroslava Sedláčkováb. 1946CZnot in their usual nameCzech Olympic gymnast
- Jaroslava Hanušováb. 1949CZnot in their usual nameCzech actress (1949–2016)
- Yaroslava Shvedovab. 1987RUKazakhstani tennis player
- Yaroslava Aleksandrovna Pulinovichb. 1987RURussian writer and playwright
- Yaroslava Nikolaevab. 1995UARussian actress of Ukrainian origin
- Yaroslava Frolovab. 1997RURussian handball player
- Yaroslava Mahuchikhb. 2001UAUkrainian high jumper (born 2001)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 421 | #501 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 143 | #1,245 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 143 | #1,245 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Iaroslava mean, and where does it come from?
- "glorious light." Fem of Iaroslav. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Iaroslava?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪəɹəsɫɑvə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Iaroslava a male or female name?
- Iaroslava is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl).
- In which country does Iaroslava have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 169 thousand people named Jaroslava, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Iaroslava most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Iaroslava is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 8.0 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Iaroslava?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 421 people named Iaroslava, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Iaroslava compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Iaroslava is the 86th 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/iaroslavaThe 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, “Iaroslava” — the 86th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.