Miroslaw
Vanishingly rare: only about 100 people are on record with it, and most Poles have never met one. A Slavic name meaning "peace and glory," from the root for glorifying peace.
Miroslaw Pronunciation
Miroslaw is pronounced mee-ROS-lahf (/miˈrɔslaf/).
What Miroslaw means
Where Miroslaw comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mirosław is built from two old Slavic roots. The first, mir, means peace and also world. The second, sław, means glory or fame. Put together they give the sense the Polish site records as sławiący pokój, one who glorifies peace. The same two pieces appear in Sławomir, where the order is reversed.
Slavic families built names like this for centuries, pairing two strong words into one. The feminine form Mirosława carries the identical meaning for a daughter. In daily life almost no one uses the full three syllables. He becomes Mirek to friends and on the class register read out each September.
Mirosław keeps his name day on 26 February, the date Polish calendars mark for the imieniny. The meaning of peace and glory sits there plainly. It was never a decoration added later. It is the two roots themselves: mir and sław.
How many people are named Miroslaw
1 in 207245 men in Poland is named Miroslaw. 103 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3377 among male names.
Miroslaw's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1733 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Where parents choose Miroslaw
Miroslaw is most popular in Silesian, 375% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+205%).
Miroslaw as a middle name
Miroslaw is a first name for 103 men in Poland and a middle name for another 94, a 52/48 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 742nd, between Meir (94) and Said (94).
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#740 Marko94
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#741 Meir94
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#742 Miroslaw94
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#743 Said94
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#744 Wadim94