Yaraslava
Fewer than fifty women in Poland carry it, rare enough that most people have never met one. The spelling is a transliteration of Jarosława, built from Slavic roots for "fierce glory".
Yaraslava Pronunciation
What Yaraslava means
Where Yaraslava comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yaraslava grows from two Slavic roots that Polish shares with Czech and Ukrainian. The first, jar, means fierce, ardent, hot. The second, slava, means glory. Together they give the meaning attached to the name today: fierce glory, or in Polish żarliwa sława.
The older feminine variant Jarosława stands close beside it, and the masculine counterpart is Jarosław. That form has a long record across the region. Yaroslav the Wise, grand prince in the eleventh century, carried the same two roots. Only the ending sorts these names into masculine and feminine.
In a Polish class register the name is rare. It reads as deliberate. The jar element once pointed to the fierce heat of spring and the rush of the young season. The glory in the name runs hot, an ardent kind, żarliwa sława.
How many people are named Yaraslava
1 in 479656 women in Poland is named Yaraslava. 47 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5585 among female names.