Sławoj
Just 127 men in Poland carry it, and almost no boys get it now: most Poles have never met a Sławoj. The name is old Slavic, built from "fame" and "warrior" for a sense of "famous warrior".
Sławoj Pronunciation
Sławoj is pronounced SWAH-voy (/ˈswavɔj/).
What Sławoj means
Where Sławoj comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sławoj comes from two old Slavic roots. The first is sław, the same element found in sława, meaning fame or glory. The second is woj, the warrior, the one who fights. Together they give the reading this site carries: famous warrior, sławny wojownik in Polish.
The name sounds ancient, yet it took shape late. Scholars treat Sławoj as a nineteenth-century formation, built on the model of older compounds like Mściwoj and Bratumił. The pattern is real Slavic even where the coinage is recent. The meaning sits right on the surface. Read the two halves and you have the warrior whose name is known.
Its best-documented bearer is Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, the last prime minister of the Second Polish Republic. His parents wanted Sławoj as his first name, but the priest at the baptism refused it, so the record read Sławoj Felicjan and the order flipped only later. As interior minister he ordered wooden outhouses built across rural Poland for hygiene, and people named them sławojki after him. That is how one name meaning famous warrior ended up on every village latrine.
How many people are named Sławoj
1 in 168080 men in Poland is named Sławoj. 127 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2968 among male names.
Sławoj's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Sławoj as a middle name
Sławoj is a first name for 127 men in Poland and a middle name for another 117, a 52/48 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 647th, between Przybysław (117) and Willem (117).
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#645 Paulo117
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#647 Sławoj117
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