Sviatoslav
given name · Latin script
Meaning: "holy glory"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/svieɪtsɫɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sviatoslav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 2.3Kas Святослав(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 3.9Kas Святослав
- BYBelarus≈1 in 8.7Kas Святослав
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sviatoslav itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 named Святослав, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Святослав in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
"holy glory."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sviatoslav counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #204 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | #104 | Святослав | 170 |
| UA Ukraine | #143 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Святослав | 78 |
| PL Poland | — | 4,908 | 1 in 7.8K | 4.9K | Sviatoslav | 29 |
| BY Belarus | #179 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Святослав | 24 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1.2K | Святослав | 39 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the russian-names-pereverzeva-2011 register; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sviatoslav is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, de святой sviatoi, saint et слава slava, gloire.
as a nameRussian Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sviatoslav I of Kievb. 942UAPrince of Kiev
- Sviatoslav II of Kievb. 1027UAgrand prince of Kiev (1027–1076)
- Sviatoslav IV of Vladimirb. 1196RUGrand Prince of Vladimir (1196-1252)
- Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgariab. 1270not in their usual nameBulgarian ruler
- Svetoslav Roerichb. 1904INnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1904-1993)
- Sviatoslav Richterb. 1915RUSoviet pianist (1915-1997)
- Svyatoslav Fyodorovb. 1927RUnot in their usual nameRussian physician (1927-2000)
- Sviatoslav Shevchukb. 1970UAmajor archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
- Svyatoslav Vakarchukb. 1975UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian musician, politician and activist (born 1975)
- Sviatoslav Mykhailiukb. 1997UAUkrainian basketball player (born 1997)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sviatoslav mean, and where does it come from?
- "holy glory." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Sviatoslav?
- A machine transcription gives /svieɪtsɫɑv/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Sviatoslav a male or female name?
- Sviatoslav is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sviatoslav have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Святослав in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sviatoslav most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sviatoslav is densest in Poland — about 1 in 7.8 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sviatoslav?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,908 people named Sviatoslav in 2026, about 1 in 7.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Sviatoslav compared with other names?
- In Russia, Sviatoslav is the 204th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sviatoslav?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sviatoslavThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sviatoslav” — the 204th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.