Entry № 11649 · Ukrainian origin

Yaroslava Yaroslava — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yah-roh-SLAH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ukrainian
Meaning
"Bright glory"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Slavic)

A name that means "bright glory".

Yaroslava (Ярослава) combines the Slavic yaro (bright, fierce) and slava (glory) — "bright glory." Feminine of Yaroslav.

Yaroslava the Wise (11th c.) was the legendary daughter of Yaroslav the Wise of Kievan Rus, who became Queen of France as Anne of Kiev.

Bright glory. The Kievan Rus princess.

The name in its native script.

Ярослава
Transliteration
Yaroslava
Pronunciation
/ ˌjɑː.roʊˈslɑː.və /
Root
Grammatical form

What Yaroslava is built from.

Yaroslava is a compound name. Its parts are slava — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

slava
Slavic
“glory”

Where Yaroslava stands.

Yaroslava does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Yaroslavas before her.

Real people
Yaroslava Mahuchikh
Ukrainian high jumper, Olympic gold 2024.
born 2001
In fiction
Yaroslava
Common in Slavic fiction.

Names connected to Yaroslava.

The number behind Yaroslava.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yaroslava reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.