Miloš
A Slavic name meaning "gracious" or "dear", close kin to the Polish spelling Miłosz. Only about 200 men in Poland carry it, rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Miloš Pronunciation
Miloš is pronounced MEE-loš (/ˈmilɔš/).
What Miloš means
Where Miloš comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Miloš grows from a Slavic root, the small word mil, which meant gracious and dear. From that same root came Miłosław and Bogumił, names built as praise. The parts point one way. The ending -oš is a South Slavic diminutive that shortens a weighty root into something plainer and closer.
In Poland the name appears as Miłosz, its closest variant. The Czech film director Miloš Forman carried the South Slavic form to Hollywood, and Serbia remembers the prince Miloš Obrenović. Across those borders the vowels shift, yet the root holds the same sense of one who is loved.
The Polish gloss, miłujący and umiłowany, keeps a verb alive: to love and to be loved. On a school register the short form Miłosz sits among the Jakubs and Antonis, unmarked and easy to call. The name says, in old Slavic, dear.
How many people are named Miloš
1 in 107267 men in Poland is named Miloš. 199 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2232 among male names.
Miloš as a middle name
Miloš is a first name for 199 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3624th, between Mikolay (8) and Miran (8).
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#3622 Miklós8
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#3623 Mikolay8
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#3624 Milos8
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#3625 Miran8
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#3626 Mizanur8