Yaroslavna
Just 54 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. A Slavic name, the feminine of Yaroslav, from roots meaning "fierce glory."
Yaroslavna Pronunciation
What Yaroslavna means
Where Yaroslavna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yaroslavna grows from two Slavic roots. Yar means fierce or ardent. Slav means glory. Read together, the name says fierce glory, and it says it plainly.
The form is a patronymic, the feminine of Yaroslav, marking a daughter of Yaroslav. Its oldest famous bearer appears in The Tale of Igor's Campaign, an East Slavic poem from around the twelfth century. In the passage known as Yaroslavna's Lament, she stands on the walls of Putyvl and calls on the wind and the river Dnieper to bring her captured husband back from the steppe. Ukrainian and Russian readers both claim that poem, and both claim her.
Yaroslavna carries no common diminutive. It stays the full patronymic, four syllables, with no softer nickname to hide behind. On a Polish szkolna lista it would sit apart from the Zosias and the Julias around it. The name keeps its old parts intact: yar for fierce, slav for glory.
How many people are named Yaroslavna
1 in 417478 women in Poland is named Yaroslavna. 54 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5116 among female names.