Lechosława
Fewer than 70 women in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborns given it this century. The name is Slavic, built on Lech: it reads as "glory of Lech".
Lechosława Pronunciation
Lechosława is pronounced le-khos-WAH-vah (/lɛxɔsˈwava/).
What Lechosława means
Where Lechosława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lechosława is a Slavic name built from two pieces. The first points to Lech, the legendary forefather of the Poles. The second, sław, means glory and fame, the same element that closes Bolesław and Stanisław. Together they give the short meaning: glory of Lech, sława Lecha in Polish.
The masculine form came first. `Lechosław` is the variant a boy carries, and Lechosława is its feminine match. Shorten either one and you land on `Lech`, a diminutive that doubles as the old legendary name from the tale of Lech, Czech and Rus.
On a school register the full form stands apart from the Zofias and the Julias. It fixes the bearer to an early Polish story, the one where Lech founds Gniezno. A woman named Lechosława rarely hears it spoken in full; the urząd form holds the long version, and daily life keeps Lech. Whatever the paperwork records, the sense stays fixed: sława Lecha, the glory of Lech.
How many people are named Lechosława
1 in 341573 women in Poland is named Lechosława. 66 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4478 among female names.
Lechosława as a middle name
Lechosława is a first name for 66 women in Poland and a middle name for another 25, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1423rd, between Josefa (25) and Lota (25).
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#1421 Gryzelda25
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#1422 Josefa25
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#1423 Lechosława25
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#1424 Lota25
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#1425 Margaretha25