Bratomiła
Almost no one in Poland carries this name: the register counts it in single figures, and no girls have been given it in years. It comes from an old Slavic pattern, brat, one's own kin, joined to mił, dear: someone held dear by her own people.
Bratomiła Pronunciation
Bratomiła is pronounced brah-to-MEE-wah (/bratɔˈmiwa/).
What Bratomiła means
Where Bratomiła comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bratomiła belongs to the old layer of Slavic names built from two stems. The first is brat, kin or brother in the wider sense of one's own people. The second is the element mił, dear or pleasant, the same root that gives Poland names like Bogumił and Miłosz. Put together they say something plain: dear to kin, miła bliskim in Polish.
Names like this were compact descriptions, formed long before surnames sorted people into families. A child called Bratomiła was marked as someone dear to her own. The meaning sits on the surface. You can read it without a dictionary.
The name is rare now. Should it turn up on a school register in a Polish classroom, it would stand out among the Zuzannas and Julias, and a teacher might pause on the second syllable. What she would be reading is a very old idea, brat joined to mił, a person held dear by her kin.
How many people are named Bratomiła
1 in 7514611 women in Poland is named Bratomiła. 3 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #35411 among female names.