Mieczysława
Around 12,000 Polish women carry it, and not a single newborn girl was given it last year. It's the feminine form of Mieczysław, a Slavic name built from "sword" and "glory".
Mieczysława Pronunciation
Mieczysława is pronounced mye-chihs-WAH-vah (/mjɛt͡ʂɨsˈwava/).
What Mieczysława means
Where Mieczysława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mieczysława grows from Slavic roots, built from two elements that Polish still uses in plain speech: miecz, the sword, and sława, glory. Put together they give the short meaning, sword glory, sława miecza. The name belongs to an old layer of Slavic naming, when a child was given a wish for strength and renown.
It is the feminine form of Mieczysław, the older masculine variant. Men who carry that name usually answer to Mietek in daily life, and the full form waits for the school register or an official document at the urząd. Mieczysława keeps its length. It has a certain formality.
One real bearer anchors the name. Mieczysława Ćwiklińska, the Polish stage and film actress, worked from the late nineteenth century into the 1960s, and her long career put the name on theatre posters across the country. For anyone who meets it now, Mieczysława still unfolds into the same two parts, the sword and the glory.
How many people are named Mieczysława
1 in 1850 women in Poland is named Mieczysława. 12,188 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #339 among female names.
Mieczysława as a middle name
Mieczysława is a first name for 12,188 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12,221, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 103rd, between Anita (12,390) and Wioleta (11,468).
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#101 Gertruda12,475
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#102 Anita12,390
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#103 Mieczysława12,221
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#104 Wioleta11,468
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#105 Eugenia10,856