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.
When Miłowan celebrates name day
Miłowan appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 25 January.
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 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