Vlasta
Fewer than 60 women in Poland carry Vlasta, so most Poles have never met one. It's Slavic at root, built on a word for power and rule.
Vlasta Pronunciation
What Vlasta means
Where Vlasta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vlasta grows from Slavic soil. The old word vlast means power and rule, the sense Polish still keeps in władza. It reaches toward ojczyzna too, the homeland a ruler answers for. The name states sovereignty plainly.
Czech legend gives Vlasta a face. In the Dívčí válka, the Maidens' War, she led women against the men of Bohemia and held the fortress Děvín. Cosmas of Prague wrote her into his Chronica Boemorum around 1120. She commanded soldiers. A woman named for power, set in a story about power.
For a Polish reader the name stays rare, without diminutives or variants of its own. It sits closer to its meaning than most names do, one root of rule and one of homeland folded together. Read Vlasta and you read vlast: power, władza.
How many people are named Vlasta
1 in 395506 women in Poland is named Vlasta. 57 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4933 among female names.
Vlasta's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.