Vyacheslav
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Slavonic: ‘more glory’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈvjɑtʃəsɫɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vyacheslav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 44th most common given name.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 181K
- RURussia≈1 in 199as Вячеслав
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 Vyacheslav 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)
- #148 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈710,000 named Вячеслав, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Вячеслав in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 3 more and Viacheslav 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)
Slavonic: ‘more glory’. The Czech and Polish version of this name is familiar in the Latinized form Wenceslas. Y
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vyacheslav 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 | #44 | ≈710,000 est. | ≈1 in 199 | #21 | Вячеслав | 202 |
| UA Ukraine | #55 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 353 | listed | Вячеслав | 110 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #73 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 702 | 8.4K | Вячеслав | 61 |
| BY Belarus | #62 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 614 | 10 | Вячеслав | 51 |
| PL Poland | — | 10,572as Viacheslav | 1 in 3.6K | 11K | Viacheslav | 54 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #371 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Вячеслав | 23 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #257 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Вячеслав | 17 |
| US United States | — | 1,838 | 1 in 181K | 1.8K | Vyacheslav | 224 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)
Vyacheslav is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вячесла́в (Vjačesláv).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Russian form of WENCESLAS .
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)
- Vyacheslav Menzhinskyb. 1874RUSoviet politician (1874-1934)
- Vyacheslav Vassilievich Stepanovb. 1889RURussian mathematician (1889–1950)
- Vyacheslav Molotovb. 1890RUSoviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)
- Vyacheslav Kotyonochkinb. 1927RUSoviet animator (1927-2000)
- Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonovb. 1928RUSoviet and Russian actor (1928–2009)
- Vyacheslav Ivanovb. 1929RUSoviet linguist (1929-2017)
- Vyacheslav Zudovb. 1942RUSoviet cosmonaut (1942–2024)
- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedevb. 1943RU1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Russia (1943—2024)
- Vyacheslav Volodinb. 1964RUChairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation
- Vyacheslav Karavayevb. 1995RURussian association football player
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #8,016 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 529 | #675 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 515 | #661 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2022 | 3 | — |
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 are other forms of the name Vyacheslav?
- In the etymology graph, Václav, Veaceslav and Wacław are forms of the same name in other languages; Slava is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Vyacheslav?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvjɑtʃəsɫɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Where does the name Vyacheslav come from?
- Slavonic: ‘more glory’. The Czech and Polish version of this name is familiar in the Latinized form Wenceslas. Y Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Vyacheslav a male or female name?
- Vyacheslav 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 does the name Vyacheslav mean?
- Recorded meaning: Slavonic: ‘more glory’.
- In which country does Vyacheslav have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 712 thousand people named Вячеслав in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vyacheslav?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,838 people named Vyacheslav in 2020, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
- How common is Vyacheslav compared with other names?
- In Russia, Vyacheslav is the 44th 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/vyacheslavThe 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, “Vyacheslav” — the 44th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.