# Václav (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vaclav/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 5 | 4,351 |
| 1921 | 5 | 4,929 |

## People named Václav

- Václav Havel, Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia an
- Václav Pilař, Czech footballer
- Václav Svěrkoš, Czech soccer player and soccer representant
- Václav Černý, Czech association football player (born 1997)
- Václav Neumann, Czech conductor, violinist and viola player (1920-1995)
- Václav Vorlíček, Czech director and scriptwriter (1930-2019)
- Václav Talich, Czech conductor, violinist, music educator, professor, university educator and director co
- Václav Noid Bárta, Czech dubbing actor, actor, lyricist and singer (born 1980)
- Václav Kadlec, Czech footballer
- Václav Hanka, Czech archivist, poet, librarian, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, publicist
- Václav Ježek, Czechoslovak association football manager (1923-1995)
- Václav Brožík, Czech painter and professor (1851-1901)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.