Given name
Yaroslava
Yaroslava is a feminine given name from Russian and Ukrainian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Yaroslava comes from Russian and Ukrainian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yaroslava through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 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 girls is 5 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 381 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.
Yaroslava’s family of names
In English usage, Yaroslava has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Jaroslava. In English usage, Yaroslava has a related form in Jaroslava. In English usage, Yaroslava has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Jarosława.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Yaroslava has relatives in 9 languages.
5 related names in 9 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yaroslava
- Yaroslava MahuchikhUkrainian high jumper (born 2001)
- Yaroslava ShvedovaKazakhstani tennis playerborn 1987
- Yaroslava FrolovaRussian handball playerborn 1997
- Yaroslava YakushinaRussian boxerborn 1993
- Yaroslava BondarenkoRussian cyclistborn 1997
- Yaroslava MuzykaUkrainian painter (1894-1973)
- Iaroslava BurlachenkoUkrainian handball playerborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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