Godzisław
A Slavic name meaning "worthy of glory". Only 14 men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it so far this century, so most Poles have never met one.
Godzisław Pronunciation
Godzisław is pronounced go-JEES-wahf (/gɔˈd͡ʑiswaf/).
What Godzisław means
Where Godzisław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Godzisław comes from the old Slavic stock of two-part names. The second half, -sław, means glory or fame, and it turns up in Bolesław, Mirosław, and Stanisław. The first half, godzi-, ties to godny, worthy. Together the parts read as worthy of glory, godny sławy in Polish.
There is a feminine form, Godzisława. It uses the same two elements. Both predate the Christian names that later filled Polish registers.
A boy named Godzisław today would stand out on a class register, where Jakub and Szymon crowd the page. The name carries no saint and no fixed name-day, so its imieniny depends on old calendars rather than the parish. What stays fixed is the second element. Sław means glory, the glory named in godny sławy.
How many people are named Godzisław
1 in 1524728 men in Poland is named Godzisław. 14 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12659 among male names.
Godzisław as a middle name
Godzisław is a first name for 14 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 45/55 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2219th, between Ghassan (17) and Göran (17).
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#2217 Fathi17
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#2218 Ghassan17
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#2219 Godzisław17
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#2220 Göran17
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#2221 Hani17