Mirosława
Two old Slavic roots joined into one: miro, "peace", and sława, "glory", giving the sense it still carries, peaceful glory. Around 69,000 Polish women answer to it, most of them well past school age, with only a handful of girls given it each year now.
Mirosława Pronunciation
Mirosława is pronounced mee-ros-WAH-vah (/mirɔsˈwava/).
What Mirosława means
Where Mirosława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mirosława comes from an old Slavic way of building names, joining two small words into one. The first part, miro, means peace. The second, sława, means glory. Together they give the sense the name still carries: peaceful glory, rendered in Polish as sławiąca pokój.
The name bends easily in daily use. Family and friends shorten it to Mira or Mirka. The variant Miroslava turns up among Slavic speakers past the Polish border, and Mirosław is the masculine form a brother might answer to.
On a school register a Mirosława sits written out in full, formal and long, while the girl herself replies to Mira and no one blinks. Her imieniny come around twice a year, on 26 February and again on 26 July, so there is more than one date to mark. The old compound holds its shape underneath every nickname. Strip away Mira, strip away Mirka, and you are left with the same two roots that Slavic parents once set side by side: peace and glory, sławiąca pokój.
How many people are named Mirosława
1 in 328 women in Poland is named Mirosława. 68,761 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #154 among female names.
Mirosława's popularity over time
18 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #541 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2009. Still the #154 name among living women, even as it slips to #541 among newborns.
Where Mirosława is most popular
Mirosława is most popular in Opole, 188% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+116%) and Lower Silesian (+48%). It is least common in West Pomeranian and Lesser Poland, 21% and 12% below average respectively.
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Opole4 girls born+188%
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Greater Poland14 girls born+116%
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Lower Silesian7 girls born+48%
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Silesian10 girls born+46%
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Łódź5 girls born+31%
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Masovian13 girls born+22%
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Pomeranian4 girls born−10%
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Lesser Poland6 girls born−12%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born−21%
Mirosława as a middle name
Mirosława is a first name for 68,761 women in Poland and a middle name for another 26,134, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 72nd, between Genowefa (27,302) and Sabina (25,797).
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70
29,977Oliwia
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71
27,302Genowefa
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7226,134Mirosława
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73
25,797Sabina
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74
25,726Cecylia