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Ярослав
“ardent, violent”·“fame, glory”
Ярослав (Jarosláv) is a masculine given name from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Russian, Ukrainian, and Pannonian Rusyn.
Bulgarian and Russian and Ukrainian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Yaroslav.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ярослав is built from elements meaning “ardent, violent” and “fame, glory”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Slavic *Jaroslavъ, built from Russian я́рый (“ardent, violent”) + -о- + слава (“fame, glory”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ярослав’s family of names
In Russian usage, Ярослав has a diminutive in Я́рик. In Russian usage, Ярослав has a conventional equivalent in the English form Yaroslav. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Ярослав can be written in the Roman alphabet as Jaroslav.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ярослав has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
6 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- YaroslavEnglish
- Яраслаўequivalent
- Jaroslavsequivalent
- JarosławPolish
- Jaroszlavequivalent
- Јарославequivalent
- Jaroslavasequivalent
- Yarsequivalent
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Ярослав
- Yaroslav the WiseGrand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054978–1054
- Yaroslav RakitskyiUkrainian footballerborn 1989
- Yaroslav II of VladimirGrand Prince of Vladimir (1191-1246)
- Yaroslav YevdokimovRussian singer1946–2025
- Yaroslav of TverGrand Prince of Vladimir (1230-1272)
- Yaroslav PopovychUkrainian cyclistborn 1980
- Yaroslav RybakovRussian Olympic high jumperborn 1980
- Yaroslav HrytsakUkrainian historianborn 1960
- Yaroslav StetskoPrime Minister of Ukraine (1912–1986)
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