Vyacheslav
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Slavonic: ‘more glory’ (A concise dictionary of first names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/vʲɪt͡ɕɪsˈɫaf/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from вячеслав
Vyacheslav is a male 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. Vyacheslav is also written Вячеслав in Cyrillic, ვიაჩესლავ in Georgian and 뱌체슬라프 in Korean (Hangul).
- CZCzechia≈1 in 56Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 170Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 181K
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)
- Record sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈760,000 named Вячеслав, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Vyacheslav in other scripts: Cyrillic, Latin, Georgian and 1 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Вячеслав in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more and Viacheslav in CZ Czechia.
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.
How to pronounce Vyacheslav
- Russian:/vʲɪt͡ɕɪsˈɫaf/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Slavonic: ‘more glory’. The Czech and Polish version of this name is familiar in the Latinized form Wenceslas. Y
Cited for this meaning 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 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 188 | register #21 | Вячеслав | 202 |
| UA Ukraine | #55 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 343 | listed | Вячеслав | 110 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #73 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 648 | 8.4K | Вячеслав | 61 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #371 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Вячеслав | 23 |
| BY Belarus | #62 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 397 | 10 | Вячеслав | 51 |
| US United States | — | 1,838 | 1 in 181K | 1.8K | Vyacheslav | 224 |
| CZ Czechia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 94 | Viacheslav | 28 |
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); naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot. 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 Molotovb. 1890RUSoviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)
- Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonovb. 1928RUSoviet and Russian actor (1928–2009)
- Vyacheslav Volodinb. 1964RUChairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Vyacheslav?
- In Russian /vʲɪt͡ɕɪsˈɫaf/ (Wiktionary).
- 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.
- 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.
- Is Vyacheslav a male or female name?
- Vyacheslav is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026), Estonia (Statistics Estonia) and Spain (INE), among others.
- What does the name Vyacheslav mean?
- Recorded meaning: Slavonic: ‘more glory’.
- Which countries have the most people named Vyacheslav?
- Mondonomo estimates about 763 thousand people named Вячеслав in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Belarus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 2026-10-13.