Veaceslav
A Slavic name meaning "greater glory". In Poland it stays firmly rare: barely 800 men carry it, all of them born a while back, with no boys given the name in any year since the records here begin in 2000.
Veaceslav Pronunciation
What Veaceslav means
Where Veaceslav comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Veaceslav is the Moldovan and Romanian spelling of a Slavic name built from two old roots: vętje, meaning "more" or "greater," and slava, "glory." Together they give the sense recorded in the name books, "greater glory." The same pairing produced Czech Václav and Polish Wacław, so a boy called Veaceslav shares an origin with the Bohemian duke the West remembers as Saint Wenceslas.
The spelling tells you where this version took hold. It belongs to Moldovan and Romanian families, who kept the old Slavic word and fitted it to their own alphabet. The roots stayed Slavic.
The name points to a person meant to be spoken of well, and that promise sits in its parts. To carry it is to answer to "greater glory." That meaning, wielka sława, greater glory, is the whole of what the two roots say.
How many people are named Veaceslav
1 in 25969 men in Poland is named Veaceslav. 822 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1039 among male names.