Miłosław
A Slavic name built from the old roots for "dear" and "glory". It stays rare and stays male: most Poles have never met a Miłosław, and the few born each year are all boys.
Miłosław Pronunciation
Miłosław is pronounced mee-WOS-wahf (/miˈwɔswaf/).
What Miłosław means
Where Miłosław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Miłosław is a Slavic name built from two old roots. The first, miły, means dear or beloved. The second, sław, means glory. Put together they give the sense the Polish keeps: miły sławie, dear to glory. English readers meet it as "dear glory."
Names like this once worked as small wishes for a child's standing among people. Slavic parents drew on a stock of such compounds, pairing warmth with renown. The feminine variant, Miłosława, follows the same pattern and turns up in the same records.
The name has grown rare. A boy called Miłosław today might be the only one on his class register, and his imieniny gives him a date few others share.
What stays fixed is the build of the word: miły plus sław, dear glory.
When Miłosław celebrates name day
Miłosław appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 2 February.
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 Miłosław
1 in 106731 men in Poland is named Miłosław. 200 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2225 among male names.
Miłosław's popularity over time
4 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1114 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2016.
Where parents choose Miłosław
Miłosław is most popular in Warmian-Masurian, 760% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+336%).
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Warmian-Masurian
+760%1 in 35,897 babies
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Masovian
+336%1 in 70,853 babies
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Warmian-Masurian+760% 2 born1 in 35,897 babies+760%
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Masovian+336% 5 born1 in 70,853 babies+336%
Miłosław as a middle name
Miłosław is a first name for 200 men in Poland and a middle name for another 139, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 598th, between Orlando (140) and Guillermo (138).
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#596 Allen140
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#597 Orlando140
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#598 Miłosław139
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#599 Guillermo138
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#600 Mohammad138