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Jarosław

Nearly 190,000 Polish men carry it, but it's fading fast: only 25 boys got it last year. A Slavic name meaning "fierce glory".

Jarosław Pronunciation

Jarosław is pronounced yah-ROS-wahf (/jaˈrɔswaf/).

Alive in 2025
189,339
Newborns 2025
25
National rank
#70
Next name day
25 April
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What Jarosław means

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

Jarosław joins two old Slavic roots. Jar carried the sense of hardy, aggressive strength, and sław meant glory. Together they read as strong glory, which Polish keeps as silna sława. The name belongs to a wide Slavic family, so it also lives across the border as the variant Jaroslav.

The diminutive Jarek does the everyday work. A boy is Jarosław on the class register and Jarek to everyone in the room. There is a feminine form too, Jarosława, rarer but real.

One bearer makes the name easy to check: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, the poet and prose writer who shaped Polish letters across much of the twentieth century. Through him the strong glory of the roots gained a clear literary association. Say the short version and most Poles picture a Jarek they know.

When Jarosław celebrates name day

Jarosław appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 25 April.

Next name day
25 April
Sunday in 2027
Next one in 182 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Jarosław

1 in 113 men in Poland is named Jarosław. 189,339 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #70 among male names.

People with the name Jarosław 2019 → 2025
189,339 −7,305 since 2019
2020 196,097 −547
2021 194,799 −1,298
2022 193,289 −1,510
2023 191,972 −1,317
2024 190,644 −1,328
2025 189,339 −1,305

Jarosław's popularity over time

25 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #473 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #70 name among living men, even as it slips to #473 among newborns.

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25 newborns with the name Jarosław in 2025
national rank #473 that year

Where parents choose Jarosław

Jarosław is most popular in West Pomeranian, 56% above the national average (13 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+49%) and Pomeranian (+24%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Holy Cross, 75% and 63% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • West Pomeranian
    +56%
    1 in 6,494 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    +49%
    1 in 6,832 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +24%
    1 in 8,185 babies
Chosen least
  • Subcarpathian
    −75%
    1 in 40,188 babies
  • Holy Cross
    −63%
    1 in 27,717 babies
  • Silesian
    −47%
    1 in 18,965 babies

Jarosław as a middle name

Jarosław is a first name for 189,339 men in Poland and a middle name for another 58,290, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 50th, between Mikołaj (60,849) and Wiesław (58,007).

As a first name
189,339
As a middle name
58,290
first name 76% middle name 24%
Middle-name ranking men

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