Yaroslav
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Yaroslav is a boys' name of Slavic origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Yaroslav mean?
Slavic
A transliteration of the Bulgarian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Яросла́в (Jarosláv).
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Yaroslav a girl's or a boy's name?
Yaroslav is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yaroslav in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 7 boys.
Yaroslav in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,195 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 1 | #6,258 |
| 2018 | 5 | #3,596 |
| 2017 | 7 | #2,875 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,214 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 1 | #6,148 |
| 2009 | 4 | #3,909 |
| 2008 | 3 | #4,615 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #3,992 |
How popular is Yaroslav in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Yaroslav, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Yaroslav in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yaroslav in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,922 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,141 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,334 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,314 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,729 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,400 |
| 2012 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,760 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,762 |
| 2007 | 8 | #8,909 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,292 |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,941 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,332 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,553 |
Names like Yaroslav
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aarav, River, Yahya, Bodhi, Luca, Yuvraj, Krishiv, Ayaan, Rafferty, Aviraj, Matteo, Ezra
More Slavic names
Mila, Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yaroslav: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yaroslav, updated 20 October 2026.