Miroslav

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Miroslav: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Miroslav: Recorded since 1956, its highest recorded position is #346, and it stood at #3,688 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
48times a registrar ranked it
69years from first to last
#346highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1999–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#2943
2002	#2636
2006	#4052
2007	#2435
2008	#1706
2009	#1649
2010	#3332
2011	#1788
2012	#2721
2013	#1920
2014	#1486
2015	#1586
2016	#2804
2017	#2172
2018	#1610
2019	#1745
2020	#2228
2021	#2301
2022	#2529
2023	#3112
2024	#3688

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 27 of the 35 years from 1956 to 1990.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1956–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1956
First recorded at #346 among boys in Norway in 1956 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1956–1990
Highest recorded position: #346 among boys in Norway, in 1956 (recorded 1956–1990).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Miroslav appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1956, and has registered 180 births with the name.

Miroslav across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Miroslav's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#346 (1956)	#346 (1956)	#537 (1990)	27 of 35	180 (1956–1990)	11 (1980)
England and Wales · Boys	#2943 (1999)	#1486 (2014)	#3688 (2024)	21 of 26	190 (1999–2024)	16 (2014)

Miroslav by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Miroslav in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	12	2 of 10	6
1960s	27	5 of 10	5
1970s	64	10 of 10	6
1980sbusiest	71	9 of 10	8
1990s	6	1 of 10	6

Across Norway · Boys, the 1980s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Miroslav appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1956 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #346 in Norway in 1956.

Miroslav's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2529	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2228	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2172	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1586	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1486	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1920	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1788	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#537	6	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#638	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#583	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#472	8	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#555	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#420	10	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#450	9	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#400	11	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#509	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#390	11	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#437	9	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#454	8	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#452	8	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#563	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#575	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#537	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#554	5	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#484	7	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#564	5	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#500	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#411	8	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#469	6	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#491	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#515	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#499	4	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#436	5	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#346	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1956 and 2024, ranked in 48 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #346, first reached in 1956.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 43 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Miro · #2443, 18y
Miron · #509, 15y
Miroslava · #556, 14y
Miroslaw · #168, 36y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Dawit · #348, 45y
Marisa · #344, 46y
Abdulkadir · #354, 48y
Amer · #354, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Pavel · #348, 46y
Ricardo · #349, 58y
Naima · #340, 54y
Violeta · #338, 46y

Miroslav was ranked #346 in Norway · Boys in 1956. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Miroslav and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Miroslav without appearing here.

Miroslav moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4052 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1649 and #4527.
Kim Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2435 and #2435 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #3687.
Brent Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2721 and #2458 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1920 and #3822.
Malin Compare
In 2006 they stood at #4052 and #3385 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #2435 and #4333.

Moved ahead of Miroslav

Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2301 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2529 and #2018.
Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3332 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #1788 and #1398.
Sondre Compare
In 1970 they stood at #500 and #510 in Norway · Boys; by 1971 that had become #564 and #220.
Gunnar Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1745 and #2728 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #2228 and #1935.

Moved the opposite way to Miroslav

Alexander Compare
Between 1956 and 1990 in Norway · Boys, Miroslav went from #346 to #537 while Alexander went from #415 to #13.
Anders Compare
Between 1956 and 1990 in Norway · Boys, Miroslav went from #346 to #537 while Anders went from #64 to #7.
Andreas Compare
Between 1956 and 1990 in Norway · Boys, Miroslav went from #346 to #537 while Andreas went from #142 to #2.
Christian Compare
Between 1956 and 1990 in Norway · Boys, Miroslav went from #346 to #537 while Christian went from #130 to #17.

Moved the same way as Miroslav

Alfred Compare
Between 1956 and 1990 in Norway · Boys, Miroslav went from #346 to #537 and Alfred from #230 to #479.
Arild Compare
Between 1956 and 1990 in Norway · Boys, Miroslav went from #346 to #537 and Arild from #23 to #179.
Arne Compare
Between 1956 and 1990 in Norway · Boys, Miroslav went from #346 to #537 and Arne from #9 to #96.
Arthur Compare
Between 1956 and 1990 in Norway · Boys, Miroslav went from #346 to #537 and Arthur from #256 to #449.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1956 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #346 in Norway in 1956. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Miroslav

Miroslav at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Miroslav across 2 official records

Miroslav by decade in Norway · Boys

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Miroslav at a glance

Miroslav across 2 official records

Miroslav by decade in Norway · Boys

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Miroslav

Miroslav and the names beside it

Miroslav moved ahead of

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