# Vyacheslav (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vyacheslav/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 16 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Russian Вячесла́в (Vjačesláv). Cognate with English Wenceslaus.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 14,149 |
| 2012 | 6 | 12,195 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,957 |

## People named Vyacheslav

- Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation
- Vyacheslav Glazkov, boxer
- Vyacheslav Lemeshev, boxer (1952–1996)
- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev, 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Russia (1943—2024)
- Vyacheslav Chukanov, equestrian
- Vyacheslav Khrynin, basketball player (1937–2021)
- Vyacheslav Yaroslavich, (1036-1057)
- Vyacheslav Lychkin, association football player from Azerbaijan
- Vyacheslav Kaminsky, association football player

## 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.