Rastislav
- Meaning:
- Growing glory
- Origin:
- Slavic
About the name Rastislav
A Slavic compound of rasti (to grow) and slava (glory); Rastislav of Moravia invited Cyril and Methodius to the Slavs in the 9th century.
Name day and nicknames
- Name day:
- April 15
Popularity with newborns
Rastislav has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.
People with this name in Croatia
13 people in Croatia are called Rastislav, according to the 2021 census. That is #2784 among all the names in Imenko.
Sources
Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.