Slavic Baby Names
Names from the Slavic language family — Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian and their common ancestors. Russian names, the largest single Slavic source in American use, have their own page.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Possibly a Wend; Polish legendary name | 20#6,095 | Up 519 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Dear; gracious | 4,796#43 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Holy or blessed | 50#3,201 | Down 201 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Watchful in Hebrew; peace in the Irina family; other Sanskrit meanings | 301#822 | Down 19 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
God is gracious; grace; also picked fruit | 181#1,247 | Down 185 rank positions in five years | 1961 | ||
Defending men | 414#684 | Down 79 rank positions in five years | 1988 | ||
Larisa short form; also a Roman mythological name | 409#693 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 1969 | ||
Probably from Lucania | 3,873#85 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Grace in the Anna family; bright in Irish tradition | 821#375 | Up 282 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Gracious or dear in Slavic; meeting or union in Sanskrit-derived use | 1,418#242 | Up 189 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Morning star | 127#1,634 | Down 476 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Variant of Danica | 69#2,550 | Down 817 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
God is gracious, through Іва́нна | 530#567 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Form of Lillian | 237#1,050 | Down 171 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Gracious or dear in Slavic; meeting or union in Sanskrit-derived use | 362#753 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Dear, kind | 271#950 | Down 121 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Of a dark colour; blue; black | 116#1,754 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Watchful in Hebrew; peace in the Irina family; other Sanskrit meanings | 222#1,086 | Up 349 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Of or pertaining to the sea, through Marin | 93#2,043 | Down 256 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Proclamation of peace | 73#2,039 | Up 1,620 rank positions in five years | 1919 | ||
Possibly short | 37#3,188 | Down 637 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition | 233#982 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Diminutive of Yekaterina | 42#3,613 | Down 302 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Fame, renown + wolf, through Ruodolf | —Unranked | — | 1927 | ||
Literal meaning not recorded; Slavic languages origin | 75#2,409 | Down 347 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
God is gracious | 58#2,930 | Up 404 rank positions in five years | 1986 | ||
Defending men | 47#2,748 | Steady | 2024 | ||
Diminutive of Ivana | 94#2,028 | Down 184 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Diminutive of Ivan | 75#2,408 | Down 214 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Of or pertaining to the sea, through Marin | 20#4,974 | Up 2,895 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Possibly a Wend; Polish legendary name | —Unranked | — | 1963 | ||
To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Helen | 21#5,865 | Up 698 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Form of Arthur | 25#4,147 | Up 2,505 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
El has helped., through Λάζαρος | 24#4,328 | Down 454 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
To stand, become + glory | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Gift of God | 34#3,386 | Up 198 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Possibly from Taras | 5#13,669 | Up 145 rank positions in five years | 1969 | ||
Possibly to be bitter, through Mariana | 11#9,254 | Down 1,815 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Love, through Люба | 5#16,324 | new | 1952 | ||
Probably from Lucania | 25#5,173 | Down 672 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
To argue; to tame, through Вадим | 6#11,889 | Down 3,888 rank positions in five years | 2002 | ||
Holy, sacred or blessed | 9#8,724 | Up 1,574 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
To destroy + peace | 29#3,810 | Up 3,448 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Wolf | 12#7,159 | Down 2,896 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Power | —Unranked | — | 1915 | ||
Holy or blessed | —Unranked | — | 1929 | ||
Form of Katherine | 10#9,770 | Up 6,527 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Form of Daniel | 23#4,426 | Up 3,789 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Fight, battle | 11#7,257 | Up 5,021 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Possibly maiden, woman, wife | —Unranked | — | 2012 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Names are included when their documented origin matches Slavic. The list shows up to 100 names for each sex, ordered by current popularity. Origin records are derived from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); coverage reflects documented records, not every name in the language. Rankings and counts come from official SSA birth records. “—” means fewer than five published applications for that sex and year.