Jaroslav
Jaroslav (also written as Yaroslav or Jarosław) is a Slavic first name pagan in origin.
There are several possible origins of the name Jaroslav. It is very likely that originally the two elements of the name referred to Jarilo - male Proto-Slavic deity of the sun, spring, and fertility, and slav meaning glory, i.e. "glory of the sun". However, with the adoption of Christianity in the Slavic countries the name began to be commonly understood not as a reference to a pagan deity, but rather to the "fervent worship of God"1 of the Bible.
People named Jaroslav (Yaroslav):
- King Jaroslav I of Kiev (c. 978-1054)
- Jaroslav Drobný, Czech tennis player
- Jaroslav Foglar, Czech novelist
- Jaroslav Halák, Slovak ice hockey goaltender for the Vancouver Canucks
- Jaroslav Hašek, Czech author, writer of The Good Soldier Švejk.
- Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and inventor, recipient of the Nobel prize
- Jaroslav Jakubovič, Czech jazz saxophonist
- Jaroslav Janiš, Czech race car driver
- Jaroslav Janus, Slovak ice hockey goaltender for the HC Slovan Bratislava
- Jaroslav Levinský, Czech tennis player
- Jaroslav Mostecký (1963–2020), Czech fantasy writer
- Jaroslav Nešetřil, Czech mathematician
- Jaroslav Pelikan, American Christian scholar
- Jaroslav Pospíšil, Czech tennis player
- Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet, recipient of the Nobel prize
- Jaroslav Špaček, retired Czech Ice Hockey defenceman, formerly in the NHL
- Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish politician, leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, former prime minister
See also[]
- Jarosław (disambiguation)
- Yaroslav (disambiguation)
- Slavic names
Categories:
- Given names
- Bulgarian masculine given names
- Croatian masculine given names
- Czech masculine given names
- Russian masculine given names
- Slovak masculine given names
- Slovene masculine given names
- Ukrainian masculine given names
- Slavic masculine given names