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.
When Pakosław celebrates name day
Pakosław appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 15 February.
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 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