Jaroslaw
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jaroslaw has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Jaroslaw, 1982
1 in 702,000
Jaroslaw over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jaroslaw?
Jaroslaw had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1982
- 1 in 702,000
- 5 of 3,507,638 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 363,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1982
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 486,263 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jaroslaw sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 486,263 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaroslaw. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jaroslaws were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaroslaw was born before 1970 — so the typical Jaroslaw is around 55 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 41.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Jaroslaw rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1970 (7)
- Years since peak
- 55
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Jaroslaw around the world
Where Jaroslaw ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2012–2012#4,805in 2012
- France1923–1942#830in 1942
- Norway1880–1996#554in 1996
- South Australia1949–1960#319in 1960
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jaroslaw by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jaroslaw
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jaroslaw
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.