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Yaroslav

#8,880 in 2025Boys' name

Fierce and glorious

Yaroslav has been given to 266 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #8,880 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Yaroslav, 2025

1 in 368,000

Yaroslav over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yaroslav: meaning, origin, and history

Fierce and glorious

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yaroslav means

Yaroslav means “fierce and glorious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Yaroslav is used in English.

Yaroslav comes through ru,uk Яросла́в.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Яросла́в.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 266 boys were recorded with the name Yaroslav between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2016; its best national rank was #5,543 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,556 in 2020 to #8,880 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,662 in 2015 to #8,880 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 Yaroslav?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,880
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yaroslav 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaroslav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yaroslavs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yaroslav was born before 2014 — so the typical Yaroslav is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
266
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (126).

Is Yaroslav 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
−1,146
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,676
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,218
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.9%
Peak was 2016 (17)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,543
2016

Where Yaroslav is used

Across 1910–2025, Yaroslav was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 605,682 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 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. Yaroslav has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yaroslav around the world

Where Yaroslav 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
    2005–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2018–2023
    #584
    in 2023
  • France
    2005–2025
    #5,766
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yaroslav by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,880
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,676
Best rank ever
#5,543
2016
Peak year
2016
17 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
266
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Yaroslav

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Yaroslav

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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