# Vladislav (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vladislav/  
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 |
| Origin | Bulgarian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Vladyslav |
| US babies named this | 637 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 637 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 131, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Transliteration from Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian Владисла́в. See Ladislaus.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 31 | 3,507 |
| 2012 | 17 | 5,466 |
| 2013 | 31 | 3,491 |
| 2014 | 27 | 3,885 |
| 2015 | 26 | 4,072 |
| 2016 | 27 | 3,980 |
| 2017 | 25 | 4,221 |
| 2018 | 10 | 8,117 |
| 2019 | 22 | 4,624 |
| 2020 | 11 | 7,469 |
| 2021 | 15 | 6,016 |
| 2022 | 11 | 7,733 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,868 |
| 2024 | 13 | 6,803 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9,647 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2013 | 7 | 2,660 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 13 | 1,804 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Владисла̀в
- Czech: Vladislav
- Hindi: व्लादिस्लाव
- Polish: Włodzisław, Władysław
- Russian: Владисла́в
- Slovak: Vladislav
- Slovene: Vladislav
- Ukrainian: Владисла́в

## People named Vladislav

- Vladislav Vančura, Czech writer, film director, playwright and screenwriter (1891–1942)
- Vladislav Tkachiev, French-Russian-Kazakhstani chess player
- Vladislav Stoyanov, Bulgarian footballer
- Vladislav Kovalev, Belarusian chess player
- Vladislav the Grammarian, Bulgarian writer
- Vladislav Kreida, Estonian association football player (born 1999)
- Vladislav of Croatia, Duke of Croatia
- Vladislav Jovanović, Ambassador of Yugoslavia
- Vladislav Klimovich, Belarusian association football player
- Vladislav Malkevich, association football player
- Vladislav Zhuk, association football player
- Vladislav Delay, Finnish musician (born 1976)

## 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.