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This section includes first names of Slavic origin. Slavic names are used in the dozen European countries that speak Slavic languages and their immigrant communities around the world. A thousand years ago, the peoples in this area still spoke a common language, and although today there are regional variations, many names are common across languages.
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Browse Slavic male and female names by alphabetical order to find out the meanings of the names. Click on the first letter of the name you're looking for.
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The Slavic languages are a group of related languages of the Slavic peoples. The group includes Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbian, Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and other languages spoken primarily in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The ancestral language, Proto-Balto-Slavic, was spoken by the peoples who lived in the area north of the Black Sea.
A sudden expansion of the Proto-Slavic dialect throughout what is now Eastern Europe beginning in the 5th century gave way to differentiation among the Slavic languages by the 9th century: East Slavic became Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian; West Slavic became Czech, Slovak, and Polish; and South Slavic became the languages now spoken throughout much of the Balkan Peninsula.
The Slavic languages are spoken by over 400 million people. Russian is by far the most widely-spoken language, with nearly 150 million native speakers. It is also spoken by over 100 million second-language speakers, including many in former Soviet countries among which Russian serves as a common language. Polish and Ukrainian are also large languages, each with over 40 million speakers.
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