Entry № 4829 · Other origin

Jaroslava Jaroslava — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yah-roh-SLAH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Fierce / glorious spring"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Czech)

A name that means "fierce / glorious spring".

Jaroslava is one of the Czech feminine names — central to traditional Czech-Slavic heritage. Czech feminine name reflecting Slavic Indigenous heritage.

Fierce / glorious spring (Czech).

The name in its native script.

Jaroslava
Transliteration
Jaroslava
Pronunciation
/ jɑː.roʊˈslɑː.və /
Root
Grammatical form

What Jaroslava is built from.

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

jarŭ
Slavic
“fierce, bright”
slava
Slavic
“glory”

Where Jaroslava stands.

Jaroslava 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.

Jaroslavas before her.

Real people
Jaroslava Maxová
Czech-American mezzo-soprano + Metropolitan Opera + Czech opera heritage.
born 1955
In fiction
Jaroslava Komárková
Czech artist + post-1968 Czech surrealist art heritage.
born 1958

Names connected to Jaroslava.

The number behind Jaroslava.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jaroslava reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.