Given name & surname
Jarosław
Jarosław is a masculine given name from Old Polish, ultimately from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Polish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jarosław comes from Old Polish, and ultimately from Proto-Slavic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Its Slavonic formation brings together jaro (“spring”) and slav (“glory”).
Jarosław’s family of names
In Polish usage, Jarosław has a diminutive in Jarek. Jarosław shares a linguistic root with Yaroslav. In Polish usage, Jarosław has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Jaroslav.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jarosław has relatives in 12 languages.
13 related names in 12 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Yaroslavcognate · English
- Jaroslavcognate · Czech, Slovene
- 雅羅斯拉夫Chinese
- ЯрославRussian, Ukrainian
- Jaroslavascognate · Lithuanian
- Jarosławafeminine form
- JaroszlávHungarian
- JaroszlavHungarian
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People named Jarosław
- Jarosław Kaczyński13th Prime Minister of the Republic of Polandborn 1949
- Jarosław DąbrowskiPolish left-wing independence activist and general, supporter of the Paris Commune (1836-1871)
- Jarosław IwaszkiewiczPolish writer (1894–1980)
- Jarosław GowinPolish politicianborn 1961
- Jarosław RodzewiczPolish fencerborn 1973
- Jarosław Wałęsapolitician from Polandborn 1976
- Jarosław JachPolish association football playerborn 1994
- Slava MogutinRussian artist and writerborn 1974
- Jarosław FojutPolish association football playerborn 1987
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