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Vladyslava

A Slavic name, the Ukrainian counterpart to Polish Władysława, meaning "to rule with glory". It reached Poland only in the last decade and is already thinning out: a rare name given to a handful of girls each year, never a boy.

Vladyslava Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
4,761
Newborns 2025
16
National rank
#498
Meaning & Origin

What Vladyslava means

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

Vladyslava grows from Slavic ground. Two old roots meet in it: vlad, meaning to rule, and slava, meaning glory or fame. Together they give the short sense usually written as "to rule with glory." In Ukrainian usage it belongs to women.

Poland knows the same name in its own spelling, Władysława, and it keeps the masculine partner nearby: Władysław, worn by medieval kings such as Władysław Jagiełło. The feminine form shares that royal ancestry without borrowing the crown. Written into a class register beside a dozen other girls, Vladyslava reads as one of the more familiar Ukrainian choices.

The glory in the name was never about noise. Slava also means renown, the good report a person leaves behind. So "to rule with glory" points less at conquest and more at holding a name with standing. Short and plain: one who rules with fame. Its Polish sister remains Władysława.

How many

How many people are named Vladyslava

1 in 4735 women in Poland is named Vladyslava. 4,761 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #498 among female names.

Living Vladyslavas · 2019 → 2025
4,761 +4,363 since 2019
+146 2020
+188 2021
+316 2022
+3,068 2023
+348 2024
+297 2025
Trend

Vladyslava's popularity over time

16 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #581 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020. Still the #498 name among living women, even as it slips to #581 among newborns.

16 newborn Vladyslavas in 2025
national rank #581 that year
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Regions

Where Vladyslava is most popular

Vladyslava is most popular in Lower Silesian, 134% above the national average (9 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+119%) and Łódź (+93%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 25% below average.

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Middle name

Vladyslava as a middle name

Vladyslava is a first name for 4,761 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4478th, between Vladislava (4) and Wadzanai (4).

As a first name
4,761
As a middle name
4
first name · 100% middle name · 0%
Middle-name ranking · women

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