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Radosław

More than 100,000 Polish men carry it, yet it keeps slipping: fewer boys get it every year now. Slavic at root, it joins rad- "glad" with sława "glory": happy in one's fame.

Radosław Pronunciation

Radosław is pronounced rah-DOS-wahf (/raˈdɔswaf/).

Alive in 2025
103,643
Newborns 2025
153
National rank
#125
Next name day
2 March
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What Radosław means

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

Radosław is built from two old Slavic roots. The first, rado, means glad or joyful. The second, sław, means glory or fame. Put together they read as happy glory, or in Polish radujący się sławą, one who takes joy in renown.

The name keeps a small family of forms nearby. There is the feminine Radosława, and the short forms Radka and Rada, which fold the long official version down into something a friend would call across a room.

Poland gives it a name-day, so every Radosław has his own date on the calendar. Picture the class register on the first day of school, the teacher working down the list and reaching the given name. Short, then.

Rado still means glad, and sław still means glory. The child who signs a form at the urząd is writing a word that once meant happy glory.

When Radosław celebrates name day

Radosław appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, 3 of them as a main name, the first on 2 March.

Next name day
2 March
Tuesday in 2027
Next one in 128 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 Radosław

1 in 206 men in Poland is named Radosław. 103,643 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #125 among male names.

People with the name Radosław 2019 → 2025
103,643 −257 since 2019
2020 103,993 +93
2021 104,043 +50
2022 103,971 −72
2023 103,891 −80
2024 103,780 −111
2025 103,643 −137

Radosław's popularity over time

153 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #213 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #125 name among living men, even as it slips to #213 among newborns.

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153 newborns with the name Radosław in 2025
national rank #213 that year

Where parents choose Radosław

Radosław is most popular in Silesian, 62% above the national average (290 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+21%) and Opole (+19%). It is least common in Łódź and Lubusz, 38% and 31% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Silesian
    +62%
    1 in 785 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +21%
    1 in 1,051 babies
  • Opole
    +19%
    1 in 1,072 babies
Chosen least
  • Łódź
    −38%
    1 in 2,044 babies
  • Lubusz
    −31%
    1 in 1,839 babies
  • Greater Poland
    −27%
    1 in 1,736 babies

Radosław as a middle name

Radosław is a first name for 103,643 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22,343, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 87th, between Julian (22,467) and Gabriel (22,230).

As a first name
103,643
As a middle name
22,343
first name 82% middle name 18%
Middle-name ranking men

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