Mstislav
given name · Latin script
Meaning: "glorious avenger"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mztɪsɫɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mstislav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 127Kas Мстислав(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 223Kas Мстислав
- EEEstonia≈1 in 117K
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 Mstislav 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 named Мстислав, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Мстислав in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more.
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 avenger."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mstislav 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 127K | #975 | Мстислав | 117 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Мстислав | 25 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 614K | — | Мстислав | 4 |
| BY Belarus | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Мстислав | 7 |
| CZ Czechia | 30 | 1 in 357K | 30 | Mstislav | 6 |
| MD Moldova | 16 | 1 in 210K | 16 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 9 | — | 2 |
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; e-services.md — living population register; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
- Mstislav of Chernigovb. 983UAPrince of Tmutarakan and Prince of Chernigov
- Mstislav I of Kievb. 1076BYgrand prince of Kiev (1076–1132)
- Mstislav Rostislavich of Smolenskb. 1143RUPrince of Smolensk and Prince of Novgorod
- Mstislav III of Kyivb. 1150RURussian prince
- Mstislav Mstislavichb. 1180UAPrince of Novgorod, Galich and Torchesk
- Mstislav II of Kievb. 1200UAGrand Prince of Kiev
- Mstislav Dobuzhinskyb. 1875RURussian artist (1875-1957)
- Mstislav Keldyshb. 1911RUSoviet mathematician and physicist (1911-1978)
- Mstislav Rostropovichb. 1927RUSoviet and Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007)
- Mstyslav Chernovb. 1985UAUkrainian photographer, reporter, photojournalist, videographer, filmmaker, war correspondent, and novelist
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 30 | #2,562 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 16 | #2,276 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 15 | #2,196 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #2,325 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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
- What does the name Mstislav mean, and where does it come from?
- "glorious avenger." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Mstislav?
- A machine transcription gives /mztɪsɫɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Mstislav a male or female name?
- Mstislav 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 Mstislav?
- In the etymology graph, Mścisław is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mstislav have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Мстислав in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mstislav?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 30 people named Mstislav, about 1 in 357 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mstislav?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mstislavThe 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, “Mstislav”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.