Zbysława
Just 42 Polish women carry it today, and not one girl has been given it since at least 2000: most Poles will never meet one. The Slavic root reads oddly, "dispel glory", though it shares a stem with the everyday nickname Zbyszek.
Zbysława Pronunciation
Zbysława is pronounced zbihs-WAH-vah (/zbɨsˈwava/).
What Zbysława means
Where Zbysława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zbysława belongs to the old family of Slavic two-part names, built from zby- and -sława. The second half, sława, means glory. The first, zby-, ties to a verb for doing away with something. Put together they give the short meaning: dispel glory.
That reading sets Zbysława apart. Most names ending in -sław promise glory, like Bolesław or Mirosław. Here the elements point the other way. The clearest witness is Zbigniew, where the same zby- meets gniew, anger, and the name is read as doing away with anger. Zbysława carries that grammar over a different second word.
The name has a masculine variant, zbysław, and the everyday form most Poles know is zbyszek. Read a class register in a Polish school and a Zbyszek will answer. The literal parse holds under all of it: zby- plus sława, dispel glory.
When Zbysława celebrates name day
Zbysława appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 30 November.
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 Zbysława
1 in 536758 women in Poland is named Zbysława. 42 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5983 among female names.
Zbysława as a middle name
Zbysława is a first name for 42 women in Poland and a middle name for another 35, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1184th, between Merve (35) and Amaya (34).
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#1182 Madeline35
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#1183 Merve35
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#1184 Zbysława35
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#1185 Amaya34
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#1186 Anneliese34