Given name
Yaroslav
“born with the beauty of spring”
Yaroslav is a form of Jaroslav. One Slavic interpretation is “born with the beauty of spring.”
Original RussianЯрослав
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Russian use, Yaroslav carries the interpretation “born with the beauty of spring.” Yaroslav is a form of Jaroslav. One Slavic interpretation is “born with the beauty of spring.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Russian.
How it developed
In Russian use, Yaroslav is used as a form of Jarosław. Yaroslav is used as a form of Jaroslav.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yaroslav through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 266
- 266 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,884 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −18%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,884 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,742 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.
Yaroslav’s family of names
Yaroslav shares a linguistic root with Jarosław. In English usage, Yaroslav has a conventional equivalent in the German form Jaroslaw. Yaroslav is a form of Jaroslav.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Yaroslav has relatives in 16 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yaroslav
- Yaroslav the WiseGrand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054978–1054
- Yaroslav RakitskyiUkrainian footballerborn 1989
- Yaroslav II of VladimirGrand Prince of Vladimir (1191-1246)
- Yaroslav YevdokimovRussian singer1946–2025
- Yaroslav of TverGrand Prince of Vladimir (1230-1272)
- Yaroslav PopovychUkrainian cyclistborn 1980
- Yaroslav RybakovRussian Olympic high jumperborn 1980
- Yaroslav HrytsakUkrainian historianborn 1960
- Yaroslav StetskoPrime Minister of Ukraine (1912–1986)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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