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Miroslav

#8,032 in 2025Boys' name

Peace; world, through *Miroslavъ

Miroslav has been given to 157 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #8,032 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Miroslav, 2025

1 in 332,000

Miroslav over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miroslav: meaning, origin, and history

Peace; world, through *Miroslavъ

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Miroslav means

Miroslav belongs to the name family reached through Miroslav → *Miroslavъ. Its meaning is “peace; world”.

Origin, language, and formation

Miroslav is used in Czech, Old Czech, Serbo-Croatian and Slovak.

Miroslav comes through Proto-Slavic *Miroslavъ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include *Miroslavъ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Miroslav is pronounced [ˈmɪroslaf].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 157 boys were recorded with the name Miroslav between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2014; its best national rank was #5,187 in 2014.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,634 in 2015 to #8,032 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Miroslav?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,032
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miroslav sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miroslav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miroslavs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miroslav was born before 2016 — so the typical Miroslav is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
157
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Miroslav 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
−451
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,602
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2014 (18)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,187
2014

Where Miroslav is used

Across 1910–2025, Miroslav was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 572,391 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Miroslav has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Miroslav around the world

Where Miroslav 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 & Wales
    1999–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1923–2025
    #6,323
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–1990
    #517
    in 1990
  • Canada
    2021–2023
    #2,216
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1951–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Miroslav by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,032
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,187
2014
Peak year
2014
18 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
157
Count in 2025
10

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Sibling names for Miroslav

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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