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:


 * Desi Slava (born 1979), Bulgarian musician (Desislava)
 * Slava (singer) (born 1980), Russian singer (Anastasia)
 * Slava Bykov (born 1960), Russian ice hockey player and coach (Vyacheslav)
 * Slava Fetisov (born 1958), Russian ice hockey player (Viacheslav)
 * Slava Frolova (born 1976), Ukrainian television presenter (Vyacheslava)
 * Slava Gerovitch (born 1963), American historian of Russian science (Vyacheslav)
 * Slava Kozlov (born 1972), Russian ice hockey player (Vyacheslav)
 * Slava KPSS (born 1990), Russian musician (Vyacheslav)
 * Slava Kravtsov (born 1987), Ukrainian basketball player (Viacheslav)
 * Slava Kurilov (1936–1998) Soviet, Canadian and Israeli oceanographer (Stanislav)
 * Slava Medvedenko (born 1979), Ukrainian basketball player (Stanislav)
 * Slava Mogutin (born 1974), New York-based Russian artist and author (Yaroslav)
 * Slava Polunin (born 1950), Russian performance artist (Vyacheslav)
 * Slava Rychkov (born 1975), Russian-Italian-French physicist and mathematician (Vyacheslav)
 * Slava Stetsko (1920–2003), Ukrainian politician and World War II veteran (Yaroslava)
 * Slava Tsukerman (born 1940), Russian Jewish film director (Vladislav)
 * Slava Turyshev, Russian physicist working in the US (Vyacheslav)
 * Slava Vakarchuk (born 1975), Ukrainian musician, politician and activist (Svyatoslav)
 * Slava Voynov (born 1990), Russian ice hockey player (Vyacheslav)
 * Slava Zaitsev (1938—2023), Russian artist (Vyacheslav)

Slava is also found as a standalone masculine given name:


 * Slava Amiragov (1926–1990), Belarusian rower
 * Slava Grigoryan (born 1976), Australian musician of Armenian/Kazakh origin
 * Slava Metreveli (1936–1998), Georgian football player and manager

Slava is also found as a feminine given name derived from a slightly different root:


 * Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), Croatian painter, birth name Slavomira

Slava is also found in pseudonyms:


 * Slava Marlow, stage name of Artyom Artyomovich Gotlib (born 1999), Russian musician