Given name & surname
Stanislav
“the glory of the camp”
Stanislav is a variant of Stanislaus. One Slavic interpretation is “the glory of the camp.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Stanislav is a variant of Stanislaus. One Slavic interpretation is “the glory of the camp.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Stanislav is a variant of Stanislaus. An origin associated with Stanislaus is Slavic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Bulgarian and Russian Станислав, from Ukrainian Станіслав.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Stanislav through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 303
- 303 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,807 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −52%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,807 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,970 as a first name in 2020; 229 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Stanislav’s family of names
In English usage, Stanislav has a diminutive in Stan. In Czech usage, Stanislav has a feminine form in Stanislava. Stanislav has a related form in Stanislaus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Stanislav has relatives in 7 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Stanislav
- Stanislav Petrovofficer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, noted for not executing a nuclear strike during a nuclear false alarm incident (1939-2017)
- Stanislav CherchesovRussian association football player and managerborn 1963
- Stanislao CannizzaroItalian chemist (1826-1910)
- Stanislav LobotkaSlovak association football playerborn 1994
- Stanislav ŠestákSlovak footballerborn 1982
- Stanislav GovorukhinSoviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor (1936-2018)
- Stanislav GrossCzech politician (1969–2015)
- Stanislav GrofCzech pychiatristborn 1931
- Stanislav MarkelovRussian lawyer (1974-2009)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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