Svyatoslav
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A romanization of the Russian, Ukrainian male given name from the Slavic languages Святослав
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zvʲieɪtsɫɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Svyatoslav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 2.3Kas Святослав
- RURussia≈1 in 3.9Kas Святослав
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 Svyatoslav 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
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 588K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 named Святослав, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovakia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Святослав in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more and Sviatoslav in PL Poland, SK Slovakia.
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 romanization of the Russian, Ukrainian male given name from the Slavic languages Святослав. Cognates include Svetoslav, Svatoslav, Świętosław, Svetislav.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Svyatoslav 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 | #204 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | #104 | Святослав | 170 |
| UA Ukraine | #143 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Святослав | 78 |
| PL Poland | — | 4,908as Sviatoslav | 1 in 7.8K | 4.9K | Sviatoslav | 29 |
| BY Belarus | #179 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Святослав | 24 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1.2K | Святослав | 39 |
| US United States | — | 270 | 1 in 1.2M | 270 | Svyatoslav | 89 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 588K | — | Sviatoslav | 8 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Svyatoslav 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.
Russian form of WI TOS AW .
as a word
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)
- Sviatoslav I of Kievb. 942UAPrince of Kiev
- Sviatoslav II of Kievb. 1027UAgrand prince of Kiev (1027–1076)
- Sviatoslav III of Kievb. 1123UAGrand Prince of Kiev
- Sviatoslav IV of Vladimirb. 1196RUGrand Prince of Vladimir (1196-1252)
- Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgariab. 1270not in their usual nameBulgarian ruler
- Svetoslav Roerichb. 1904INnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1904-1993)
- Sviatoslav Richterb. 1915RUSoviet pianist (1915-1997)
- Svyatoslav Fyodorovb. 1927RURussian physician (1927-2000)
- Svyatoslav Podgayevskiyb. 1984RURussian film director, screenwriter and editor
- Sviatoslav Mykhailiukb. 1997UAUkrainian basketball player (born 1997)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 290 | #946 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 277 | #1,041 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 270 | #31,632 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2022 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2024 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2023 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2020 | 2 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Svyatoslav mean?
- Recorded meaning: A romanization of the Russian, Ukrainian male given name from the Slavic languages Святослав.
- Where does the name Svyatoslav come from?
- A romanization of the Russian, Ukrainian male given name from the Slavic languages Святослав. Cognates include Svetoslav, Svatoslav, Świętosław, Svetislav. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Svyatoslav?
- A machine transcription gives /zvʲieɪtsɫɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Svyatoslav a male or female name?
- Svyatoslav 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 Svyatoslav have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Святослав in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Svyatoslav?
- In the United States, the national register counted 270 people named Svyatoslav in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Svyatoslav compared with other names?
- In Russia, Svyatoslav is the 204th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/svyatoslavThe 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, “Svyatoslav” — the 204th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.