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Stanislav

A Slavic name meaning "to become glorious", and a variant of the Polish Stanisław. It stays uncommon, the kind you don't meet often, though more boys carry it now than a decade back, and always boys.

Stanislav Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
12,461
Newborns 2025
30
National rank
#336

What Stanislav means

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

The name Stanislav grows from two old Slavic roots. One carries the sense of becoming or standing firm, the other means glory and fame. Put together, they promise a person who will become famous, ten, który stanie się sławny in Polish. The Polish spelling Stanisław is the form most Poles know.

Poland gave the name a saint early. Stanisław of Szczepanów, bishop of Kraków, died in 1079 after his clash with King Bolesław, and became one of the country's patron saints. His feast on 8 May fills class registers with the name each spring.

The name softens easily in daily speech. A boy called Stanisław answers to Staś at home, to Staszek among friends, and to Stach when the tone turns blunt. Girls carry the sense too, as Stanisława. Behind all of them sits the same promise: to become glorious.

How many people are named Stanislav

1 in 1714 men in Poland is named Stanislav. 12,461 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #336 among male names.

People with the name Stanislav 2019 → 2025
12,461 +9,839 since 2019
2020 3,401 +779
2021 4,391 +990
2022 5,960 +1,569
2023 10,557 +4,597
2024 11,600 +1,043
2025 12,461 +861

Stanislav's popularity over time

30 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #442 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2008. Still the #336 name among living men, even as it slips to #442 among newborns.

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30 newborns with the name Stanislav in 2025
national rank #442 that year

Where Stanislav is most popular

Stanislav is most popular in Lubusz, 193% above the national average (7 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+125%) and Greater Poland (+103%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 63% and 62% below average respectively.

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Stanislav as a middle name

Stanislav is a first name for 12,461 men in Poland and a middle name for another 55, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1013th, between Rajnard (55) and Ted (55).

As a first name
12,461
As a middle name
55
first name 100% middle name 0%
Middle-name ranking men

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