Mirosław
Around 176,000 Polish men carry it, but it's fading from the maternity ward: just 28 boys got it last year. A Slavic name meaning "peace and glory".
Mirosław Pronunciation
Mirosław is pronounced mee-ROS-wahf (/miˈrɔswaf/).
What Mirosław means
Where Mirosław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mirosław is a Slavic name built from two old roots. The first, mir, means peace; the second, sław, means glory. Put together they give the phrase Poles still use, sławiący pokój, one who praises peace, and in English simply peace and glory. Those halves belong to a wide family of Slavic compound names, so sław also closes Stanisław, while mir opens the feminine Mirosława.
The name has real bearers to point to. Mirosław Hermaszewski, born in 1941, became the first Polish person in space when he flew aboard Soyuz 30 in 1978. Poles had used his name for centuries before any rocket left the ground.
In a school register a teacher might read the full Mirosław once, then call the boy Mirek for the rest of the year. The diminutives soften things: Mira and Mirka do the same for Mirosława and its variant Miroslava. Short and easy. The full form stays on official paperwork, the shorter one gets used aloud. The meaning holds either way: peace and glory.
When Mirosław celebrates name day
Mirosław appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 26 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Mirosław
1 in 121 men in Poland is named Mirosław. 176,127 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #81 among male names.
Mirosław's popularity over time
28 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #451 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #81 name among living men, even as it slips to #451 among newborns.
Where parents choose Mirosław
Mirosław is most popular in West Pomeranian, 95% above the national average (18 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+57%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+42%). It is least common in Łódź and Lublin, 49% and 38% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian
+95%1 in 4,690 babies
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Lower Silesian
+57%1 in 5,820 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
+42%1 in 6,434 babies
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Łódź
−49%1 in 18,103 babies
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Lublin
−38%1 in 14,668 babies
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Podlaskie
−30%1 in 13,157 babies
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West Pomeranian+95% 18 born1 in 4,690 babies+95%
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Lower Silesian+57% 27 born1 in 5,820 babies+57%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+42% 17 born1 in 6,434 babies+42%
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Greater Poland+40% 33 born1 in 6,523 babies+40%
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Warmian-Masurian+15% 9 born1 in 7,977 babies+15%
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Lesser Poland+1% 25 born1 in 9,077 babies+1%
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Subcarpathian−1% 13 born1 in 9,274 babies−1%
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Pomeranian−1% 16 born1 in 9,208 babies−1%
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Masovian−10% 35 born1 in 10,122 babies−10%
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Silesian−20% 20 born1 in 11,379 babies−20%
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Lubusz−26% 4 born1 in 12,414 babies−26%
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Podlaskie−30% 5 born1 in 13,157 babies−30%
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Lublin−38% 7 born1 in 14,668 babies−38%
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Łódź−49% 7 born1 in 18,103 babies−49%
Mirosław as a middle name
Mirosław is a first name for 176,127 men in Poland and a middle name for another 68,158, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 43rd, between Edward (68,561) and Dawid (65,167).
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#41 Artur70,058
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#42 Edward68,561
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#43 Mirosław68,158
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#44 Dawid65,167
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#45 Daniel62,511