Wenceslas
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wenceslas is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France. In English, recorded as Slavonic; great glory. 10th-century Bohemian saint.
- FRFrance
- CICôte d’Ivoire
- CDCongo - Kinshasa
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Slavonic; great glory. 10th-century Bohemian saint.
Sources 1
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Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Wenceslas is read(measured from records)
Wenceslas is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French75%
Origine slave, signifie « couronne » et « gloire ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
From Slavic Vyacheslav: ‘more glory’, via Czech Wenceslaus.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English8.9%
Slavonic; great glory. 10th-century Bohemian saint.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A male given name from the Slavic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Wacław Raczkowiczb. 1420PLnot in their usual nameRoman Catholic bishop
- Wenceslas Smiřický of Smiřiceb. 1564Bohemian nobleman
- Wenceslas Xaver Neumann von Puchholtzb. 1670CZ1670-1743; böhm. Rechtsgelehrter; Rektor der Universität Prag 1714-1715, 1724, 1729, 1734, 1737, 1739-1740
- Wenceslaus Adalb. Pitschb. 1804CZnot in their usual nameCzech physician in Prague (1804-1846)
- Joseph-Wenceslas Lévesqueb. 1873CACanadian politician
- Wenceslas Jardetzkyb. 1896USAmerican astronomer, geophysicist, university teacher (1896-1962)
- Wenceslas Kalibushib. 1919RWcatholic Bishop
- Wenceslas Compaoréb. 1934BFburkinabé Roman Catholic priest (1934–2023)
- Wenceslas Munyeshyakab. 1958RWRwandan priest convicted of genocide
- Wenceslas Lauretb. 1989FRFrench rugby union 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #140,786 |
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 Wenceslas mean, and where does it come from?
- Slavonic; great glory. 10th-century Bohemian saint. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Wenceslas a male or female name?
- Wenceslas 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 Wenceslas?
- In the etymology graph, Václav, Veaceslav and Wacław are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Wenceslas have the most bearers?
- Wenceslas is most frequently recorded in France.
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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, “Wenceslas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.