Myroslava
A Slavic name meaning "peace and glory", carried in Poland almost entirely by Ukrainian families. Births jumped around 2022 and have eased off every year since, and with roughly 6,000 women bearing it, meeting one still stands out.
Myroslava Pronunciation
What Myroslava means
Where Myroslava comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Myroslava grows from two old Slavic roots, myr, meaning peace, and slava, meaning glory. It belongs most closely to Ukraine, where the form keeps its first vowel and its full sound. The short reading, peace and glory, sits neatly on those two halves.
In Poland the same name sheds its Ukrainian spelling and becomes Mirosława, with Mira and Mirka as the everyday short forms. The masculine partner is Mirosław, still common on any imieniny list. In a Polish class register a Mirosława might sit two seats from a visiting Myroslava, and the two would be first cousins by sound.
Slavic compound names like this one were built to speak well of the child who wore them. The first half asks for peace. The second asks for fame. The accent shifted over the centuries, yet Mira and Mirka still open on that first syllable of peace.
How many people are named Myroslava
1 in 3509 women in Poland is named Myroslava. 6,426 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #439 among female names.
Myroslava's popularity over time
33 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #428 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.
Where parents choose Myroslava
Myroslava is most popular in Łódź, 187% above the national average (19 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+143%) and Greater Poland (+33%). It is least common in Lublin and Podlaskie, 63% and 42% below average respectively.
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Łódź
+187%1 in 6,669 babies
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Lower Silesian
+143%1 in 7,857 babies
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Greater Poland
+33%1 in 14,350 babies
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Lublin
−63%1 in 51,338 babies
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Podlaskie
−42%1 in 32,893 babies
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Lesser Poland
−41%1 in 32,417 babies
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Łódź+187% 19 born1 in 6,669 babies+187%
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Lower Silesian+143% 20 born1 in 7,857 babies+143%
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Greater Poland+33% 15 born1 in 14,350 babies+33%
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Lubusz+16% 3 born1 in 16,552 babies+16%
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Masovian+8% 20 born1 in 17,713 babies+8%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+5% 6 born1 in 18,230 babies+5%
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Pomeranian−9% 7 born1 in 21,046 babies−9%
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Silesian−16% 10 born1 in 22,758 babies−16%
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Opole−17% 2 born1 in 23,048 babies−17%
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Lesser Poland−41% 7 born1 in 32,417 babies−41%
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Podlaskie−42% 2 born1 in 32,893 babies−42%
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Lublin−63% 2 born1 in 51,338 babies−63%
Myroslava as a middle name
Myroslava is a first name for 6,426 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5086th, between Myrian (3) and Méabh (3).
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#5084 Musawenkosi3
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#5085 Myrian3
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#5086 Myroslava3
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#5087 Méabh3
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#5088 Mía3