Miłogost
Two old Slavic words fused into one: *miły* (dear) and *gość* (guest), a dear guest. Most Poles have never met a Miłogost, and no boys were given the name last year.
Miłogost Pronunciation
Miłogost is pronounced mee-WO-gost (/miˈwɔgɔst/).
What Miłogost means
Where Miłogost comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Miłogost belongs to the old Slavic stock of two-part personal names. It joins miły, meaning dear or kind, with gość, meaning guest. Read together, the two halves settle into "dear guest," or in Polish miły gość. Medieval Poland minted hundreds of names on this pattern, welding one good word to another.
The second element travels far. Polish gość descends from Proto-Slavic gostъ, a cousin of Latin hostis and English guest. In that older world a guest held a real claim. He was owed shelter. To host one counted as a duty.
Miłogost is rare now. It seldom turns up on a school class register, and a modern imieniny calendar can pass a whole year without it. The name still parses on sight, though. Anyone who knows the words hears the greeting inside it: a dear guest, miły gość.
How many people are named Miłogost
1 in 3049455 men in Poland is named Miłogost. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #21067 among male names.
Miłogost as a middle name
Miłogost is a first name for 7 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 78/22 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8324th, between Mizan (2) and Miłowan (2).
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#8322 Misza2
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#8323 Mizan2
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#8324 Miłogost2
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#8325 Miłowan2
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#8326 Moacir2