Myroslava
A Slavic name meaning "peace and glory", carried in Poland almost entirely by Ukrainian families. Births jumped around 2022 and have eased off every year since, and with roughly 6,000 women bearing it, meeting one still stands out.
Myroslava Pronunciation
What Myroslava means
Where Myroslava comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Myroslava grows from two old Slavic roots, myr, meaning peace, and slava, meaning glory. It belongs most closely to Ukraine, where the form keeps its first vowel and its full sound. The short reading, peace and glory, sits neatly on those two halves.
In Poland the same name sheds its Ukrainian spelling and becomes Mirosława, with Mira and Mirka as the everyday short forms. The masculine partner is Mirosław, still common on any imieniny list. In a Polish class register a Mirosława might sit two seats from a visiting Myroslava, and the two would be first cousins by sound.
Slavic compound names like this one were built to speak well of the child who wore them. The first half asks for peace. The second asks for fame. The accent shifted over the centuries, yet Mira and Mirka still open on that first syllable of peace.
How many people are named Myroslava
1 in 3509 women in Poland is named Myroslava. 6,426 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #439 among female names.
Myroslava's popularity over time
33 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #428 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.
Where Myroslava is most popular
Myroslava is most popular in Łódź, 187% above the national average (19 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+143%) and Greater Poland (+33%). It is least common in Lublin and Podlaskie, 63% and 42% below average respectively.
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Łódź19 girls born+187%
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Lower Silesian20 girls born+143%
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Greater Poland15 girls born+33%
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Lubusz3 girls born+16%
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Masovian20 girls born+8%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian6 girls born+5%
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Pomeranian7 girls born−9%
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Silesian10 girls born−16%
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Opole2 girls born−17%
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Lesser Poland7 girls born−41%
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Podlaskie2 girls born−42%
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Lublin2 girls born−63%
Myroslava as a middle name
Myroslava is a first name for 6,426 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5086th, between Myrian (3) and Méabh (3).
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#5084 Musawenkosi3
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#5085 Myrian3
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#5086 Myroslava3
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#5087 Méabh3
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#5088 Mía3