Boguchwała
Just 13 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it in years: most Poles will never meet one. The roots are Slavic, and the name means "one who praises God".
Boguchwała Pronunciation
Boguchwała is pronounced bo-gookh-FAH-wah (/bɔguxˈfawa/).
What Boguchwała means
Where Boguchwała comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Boguchwała is a compound of two Old Slavic roots. Bogu means God. The second part, chwał, comes from the word for praise and glory. Together they name someone who praises God. The masculine twin is Boguchwał.
Names beginning with Bog formed a large family in early Slavic naming, alongside Bogumił and Bogusław. The masculine Boguchwał belonged to a real figure: a thirteenth-century bishop of Poznań, a chronicler tied to the Kronika wielkopolska, the Chronicle of Greater Poland. His name reached Latin pages as Boguphalus. The feminine Boguchwała stayed rarer, and it kept the same plain sense of one who gives God praise.
Today the name is archaic. You are unlikely to meet a young Boguchwała on a class register. The sense of praise still sits openly in the second root, chwała, a word Poles use for glory. That root, chwała, is why the name means one who praises God.
How many people are named Boguchwała
1 in 1734141 women in Poland is named Boguchwała. 13 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13212 among female names.
Boguchwała as a middle name
Boguchwała is a first name for 13 women in Poland and a middle name for another 28, a 32/68 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1334th, between Betty (28) and Cecile (28).
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#1332 Astryda28
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#1333 Betty28
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#1334 Boguchwała28
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#1335 Cecile28
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#1336 Chinyere28