Slava (given name)

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:

  • Slava (singer), stage name of Russian singer Anastasia Slanevskaya
  • Slava Polunin, Russian performance artist Vyacheslav Polunin
  • Slava Gerovitch, American historian of Russian science Vyacheslav Gerovitch
  • Slava Mogutin, New York-based Russian artist and author Yaroslav Mogutin
  • Slava Stetsko, Ukrainian politician and World War II veteran Yaroslava Stetsko
  • Slava Turyshev, Russian physicist Vyacheslav Turyshev working at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Slava Zaitsev, Russian artist Vyacheslav Zaitsev

Slava is also a full given name, masculine and feminine:

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