Pakosław
An old Slavic name from `pako-`, "more," and `-sław`, "glory": more glory. Almost no one in Poland carries it now, so meeting a Pakosław would stay with you.
Pakosław Pronunciation
Pakosław is pronounced pah-KOS-wahf (/paˈkɔswaf/).
What Pakosław means
Where Pakosław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pakosław is built from two old Slavic pieces. The first, `pako-`, meant "more" or "again". The second, `-sław`, meant glory. Together they give the short meaning that trails the name today: więcej sławy, more glory.
The name is old in Poland. Scribes wrote it down as early as 1153. Its best-documented bearer is Pakosław Stary, voivode of Kraków and Sandomierz, who lived from around 1170 to 1245. He signed charters, held castellanies, and steered the politics of the Piast dukes. A man with more glory wore the name well.
Read it off a school class register now and it lands as something plainly medieval. It has no everyday diminutive and no cross-gender pair. You get the full four syllables or nothing. That plainness is part of why it reads like a name from the chronicles rather than the schoolyard. Pakosław means more glory, and it has meant that since the twelfth century.
How many people are named Pakosław
1 in 7115396 men in Poland is named Pakosław. 3 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #40432 among male names.
Pakosław as a middle name
Pakosław is a first name for 3 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6713th, between Paco (3) and Palermo (3).
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#6711 Ozjasz3
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#6712 Paco3
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#6713 Pakosław3
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#6714 Palermo3
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#6715 Panayiotis3