Slava (given name) explained
Slava is a given name in Slavic countries.
Slava is a common nickname for masculine Slavic names ending with "-slav", e.g. Vyacheslav, Stanislav, Yaroslav, Sviatoslav, Rostislav, Mstislav or feminine Slavic names ending with "-slava", e.g. Miroslava, Yaroslava. Notable people whose given name has this etymology include:
- Desi Slava (born 1979), Bulgarian musician (Desislava)
- Slava (singer) (born 1980), Russian singer (Anastasia)
- Slava Bykov (born 1960), Russian ice hockey player and coach (Vyacheslav)
- Slava Fetisov (born 1958), Russian ice hockey player (Viacheslav)
- Slava Frolova (born 1976), Ukrainian television presenter (Vyacheslava)
- Slava Gerovitch (born 1963), American historian of Russian science (Vyacheslav)
- Slava Kozlov (born 1972), Russian ice hockey player (Vyacheslav)
- Slava KPSS (born 1990), Russian musician (Vyacheslav)
- Slava Kravtsov (born 1987), Ukrainian basketball player (Viacheslav)
- Slava Kurilov (1936–1998) Soviet, Canadian and Israeli oceanographer (Stanislav)
- Slava Medvedenko (born 1979), Ukrainian basketball player (Stanislav)
- Slava Mogutin (born 1974), New York-based Russian artist and author (Yaroslav)
- Slava Polunin (born 1950), Russian performance artist (Vyacheslav)
- Slava Rychkov (born 1975), Russian-Italian-French physicist and mathematician (Vyacheslav)
- Slava Stetsko (1920–2003), Ukrainian politician and World War II veteran (Yaroslava)
- Slava Tsukerman (born 1940), Russian Jewish film director (Vladislav)
- Slava Turyshev, Russian physicist working in the US (Vyacheslav)
- Slava Vakarchuk (born 1975), Ukrainian musician, politician and activist (Svyatoslav)
- Slava Voynov (born 1990), Russian ice hockey player (Vyacheslav)
- Slava Zaitsev (1938—2023), Russian artist (Vyacheslav)
Slava is also found as a standalone masculine given name:
Slava is also found as a feminine given name derived from a slightly different root:
- Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), Croatian painter, birth name Slavomira
Slava is also found in pseudonyms:
- Slava Marlow, stage name of Artyom Artyomovich Gotlib (born 1999), Russian musician
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