Given name
Vratislav
“return”
Vratislav is a masculine given name. It is used in Czech, Old Slovak, and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
Vratislav’s family of names
In Czech usage, Vratislav has a diminutive in Vratislávek. In Czech usage, Vratislav has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Wratysław. In Czech usage, Vratislav has a diminutive in Vráťa.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
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 Vratislav
- Vratislav LokvencCzech footballerborn 1973
- Vratislaus II of BohemiaDuke and king of Bohemia from 1061 to 10921031–1092
- Vratislaus I of BohemiaDuke of Bohemia875–921
- Vratislav GreškoSlovak soccer playerborn 1977
- Wartislaw VII, Duke of PomeraniaDuke of Pomerania-Stolp1363–1395
- Wratislaus of Brnothe Duke of Moravia for twenty years - between 1125-1129 and 1130 - 1146 (4+16 years - the second stage 1130-1146))1150–1156
- Vratislav MazákCzech scientist (1937–1987)
- Vratislav EffenbergerCzech poet, literary theorist and writer (1923–1986)
- Vratislav BrabenecCzech saxophonist (born 1943)
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