Lutosława
Fewer than 40 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000. The Slavic root means "fierce glory".
Lutosława Pronunciation
Lutosława is pronounced loo-tos-WAH-vah (/lutɔsˈwava/).
What Lutosława means
Where Lutosława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Lutosława is built from two Slavic roots. The first, luto, links to the old word for fierce or harsh, the same stem behind luty, the Polish name for February. The second, sław, means glory. Put together they give the short meaning "fierce glory," a compound of severity and renown.
The masculine form is Lutosław, and the everyday shortening is Lutek. That last one softens the whole thing. Lutek is the form a child would actually answer to, far lighter than the full name.
Old Polish dithematic names like this one favored sław as a second element. Bolesław, Mirosław, Stanisław all share it. Lutosława sits in that family, rarer than its cousins. The surname Lutosławski, borne by the composer Witold Lutosławski, grew from the same root stock.
Read it on a class register today and it looks archaic. The short meaning stays plain: fierce glory, sroga sława.
How many people are named Lutosława
1 in 578047 women in Poland is named Lutosława. 39 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6244 among female names.
Lutosława as a middle name
Lutosława is a first name for 39 women in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1785th, between Lotte (17) and Lúcia (17).
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#1783 Loredana17
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#1784 Lotte17
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#1785 Lutosława17
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#1786 Lúcia17
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#1787 Mackenzie17