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Mirosława

Two old Slavic roots joined into one: miro, "peace", and sława, "glory", giving the sense it still carries, peaceful glory. Around 69,000 Polish women answer to it, most of them well past school age, with only a handful of girls given it each year now.

Mirosława Pronunciation

Mirosława is pronounced mee-ros-WAH-vah (/mirɔsˈwava/).

Related names
Miroslaw Mirek
Alive in 2025
68,761
Newborns 2025
18
National rank
#154
Next name day
26 July
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What Mirosława means

Where Mirosława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Mirosława comes from an old Slavic way of building names, joining two small words into one. The first part, miro, means peace. The second, sława, means glory. Together they give the sense the name still carries: peaceful glory, rendered in Polish as sławiąca pokój.

The name bends easily in daily use. Family and friends shorten it to Mira or Mirka. The variant Miroslava turns up among Slavic speakers past the Polish border, and Mirosław is the masculine form a brother might answer to.

On a school register a Mirosława sits written out in full, formal and long, while the girl herself replies to Mira and no one blinks. Her imieniny come around twice a year, on 26 February and again on 26 July, so there is more than one date to mark. The old compound holds its shape underneath every nickname. Strip away Mira, strip away Mirka, and you are left with the same two roots that Slavic parents once set side by side: peace and glory, sławiąca pokój.

When Mirosława celebrates name day

Mirosława appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 26 July.

Next name day
26 July
Monday in 2027
Next one in 274 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Mirosława

1 in 328 women in Poland is named Mirosława. 68,761 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #154 among female names.

People with the name Mirosława 2019 → 2025
68,761 −5,944 since 2019
2020 74,209 −496
2021 73,098 −1,111
2022 71,902 −1,196
2023 70,835 −1,067
2024 69,863 −972
2025 68,761 −1,102

Mirosława's popularity over time

18 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #541 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2009. Still the #154 name among living women, even as it slips to #541 among newborns.

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18 newborns with the name Mirosława in 2025
national rank #541 that year

Where parents choose Mirosława

Mirosława is most popular in Opole, 188% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+116%) and Lower Silesian (+48%). It is least common in West Pomeranian and Lesser Poland, 21% and 12% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Opole
    +188%
    1 in 11,524 babies
  • Greater Poland
    +116%
    1 in 15,375 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    +48%
    1 in 22,448 babies
Chosen least
  • West Pomeranian
    −21%
    1 in 42,213 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    −12%
    1 in 37,819 babies
  • Pomeranian
    −10%
    1 in 36,830 babies

Mirosława as a middle name

Mirosława is a first name for 68,761 women in Poland and a middle name for another 26,134, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 72nd, between Genowefa (27,302) and Sabina (25,797).

As a first name
68,761
As a middle name
26,134
first name 72% middle name 28%
Middle-name ranking women

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