Given name
Jaroslav
“born with the beauty of spring”
Jaroslav is used as a given name. One Slavic interpretation is “born with the beauty of spring.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Slavic interpretation is “born with the beauty of spring.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Slavic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jaroslav through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1919. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 561 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jaroslav’s family of names
In Czech usage, Jaroslav has a diminutive in Jarek. Jaroslav shares a linguistic root with Jarosław. Jaroslav has a related form in Jaroslaw.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jaroslav has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
13 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Jarekdiminutive · Czech
- Yaroslavvariant · English
- Jarovariant · Slovak
- Jaroslawvariant
- Slávekpet form · Czech
- Jarkadiminutive · Czech
- Járadiminutive · Czech
- Jardadiminutive · Czech
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Jaroslav
- Jaroslav HašekCzech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist (1883-1923)
- Jaroslav SeifertCzechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate (1901–1986)
- Jaroslav HeyrovskýCzech chemist (1890-1967)
- Jaroslav PlašilCzech footballer (born 1982)
- Jaroslav VrchlickýCzech lyrical poet (1853–1912)
- Dominik DukaArchbishop of Prague from 2010 to 20221943–2025
- Jaroslav DrobnýCzech footballerborn 1979
- Jaroslav DrobnýCzech tennis and ice hockey player (1921–2001)
- Jaroslav PelikanUS historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale (1923–2006)
Characters named Jaroslav: Jára Cimrman (Czech fictional character of a national giant).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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