Miłowan
Only two men in Poland carry it, and no boy has been given it this century. A Slavic name meaning "loving one," or the one who is loved.
Miłowan Pronunciation
Miłowan is pronounced mee-WO-vahn (/miˈwɔvan/).
What Miłowan means
Where Miłowan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Miłowan comes from the Slavic root mił-, the source of the adjective miły, which means dear or pleasant. The same root sits in Bogumił, "dear to God," a name well recorded in Polish church books. Miłowan leans on the verb miłować, to love. So the name can be read two ways at once.
The Polish gloss holds both: miłowany and miłujący. One is the person who is loved. The other is the person doing the loving. Early Slavic names often packed a small statement into one word, and Miłowan does exactly that.
The name comes with no diminutive and no listed variant. It arrives plain. On a class register it would stand alone, without the Kasia-to-Katarzyna ladder that most Polish names carry. The root gives the meaning plainly: beloved, and one who loves.
How many people are named Miłowan
1 in 10673094 men in Poland is named Miłowan. 2 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #56316 among male names.
Miłowan as a middle name
Miłowan is a first name for 2 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8325th, between Miłogost (2) and Moacir (2).
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#8323 Mizan2
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#8324 Miłogost2
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#8325 Miłowan2
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#8326 Moacir2
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#8327 Moana2