Fun Facts About the Name Ladislav
- 82 babies named Ladislav: U.S. records list 82 babies given the name Ladislav from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Ladislav Mean?
Ladislav is a Czech and Slovak name meaning "rule with glory." It is built from Slavic elements: vlad-, "to rule," and slava, "glory." The name is the Czech and Slovak form of the older Slavic name Vladislav, which lost its initial V- in those languages. The same ancestral compound also produced Polish Władysław and Hungarian László. A less widely accepted explanation connects the first element instead to Czech lad, "order" or "harmony," giving a sense like "glorious order."
Ladislav Name History & Origins
The name belongs to the Slavic-speaking lands of central Europe, where Latin documents recorded it as Ladislaus. Its best-known early bearer is Saint Ladislaus, King of Hungary from 1077 to 1095, canonized in 1192; Hungarian renders his name László, while Czech and Slovak use Ladislav. In the Bohemian lands the fuller form Vladislav was borne by Přemyslid dukes in the 12th century, and Ladislav became the customary Czech shape of the name.
A later documented bearer was Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440 - 1457), Duke of Austria and King of Bohemia and Hungary. The name stayed in ordinary use in Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian families, and its Polish cognate Władysław followed its own separate course in Poland.
How Popular is the Name Ladislav?
Ladislav has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1914. Its best rank was #2,045 in 1914.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | #3,685 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1922 | #3,711 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1920 | #4,656 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1919 | #3,967 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1918 | #2,999 | 9 | 0.0009% |
| 1917 | #2,498 | 11 | 0.0012% |
| 1916 | #2,834 | 9 | 0.0010% |
| 1915 | #4,124 | 5 | 0.0006% |
| 1914 | #2,045 | 11 | 0.0017% |
| 1913 | #2,387 | 7 | 0.0014% |
| 1912 | #2,740 | 5 | 0.0012% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Ladislav Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You always bring to completion anything you start. You are generous but like to see returns from your giving. You have an executive ability, you are a leader. You are moral, balanced, honest and intellectual, and you may attain spirituality. You are wise and practical with an appreciation of beauty. You always think before you act. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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