Given name
Sviatoslav
Sviatoslav is a masculine given name from Russian. It is used in French.
Original RussianСвятослав
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2023. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sviatoslav through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sviatoslav’s family of names
In French usage, Sviatoslav has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form SVJATOSLAV. In French usage, Sviatoslav has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Святосла́в. In Spanish usage, Sviatoslav has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Святослав.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- СвятославRussian
- Святосла́вRussian
- Svatoslavequivalent
- Światosławequivalent
- Svetoequivalent
- Светославequivalent
- Святаслаўequivalent
- Svetoslavequivalent
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People named Sviatoslav
- Sviatoslav IPrince of Kiev942–972
- Sviatoslav RichterSoviet pianist (1915-1997)
- Sviatoslav VakarchukUkrainian musician, politician and activist (born 1975)
- Sviatoslav Shevchukmajor archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Churchborn 1970
- Sviatoslav II of Kievgrand prince of Kiev (1027–1076)
- Sviatoslav MykhailiukUkrainian basketball player (born 1997)
- Sviatoslav III of VladimirGrand Prince of Vladimir (1196-1252)
- Svyatoslav FyodorovRussian physician (1927-2000)
- Sviatoslav III of KievGrand Prince of Kiev1123–1194
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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