Bogusława
Around 46,000 women in Poland carry it, nearly all of them from an older generation: only a handful of girls got the name last year. Slavic at root, from Bóg and sława, "god's glory".
Bogusława Pronunciation
Bogusława is pronounced bo-goos-WAH-vah (/bɔgusˈwava/).
What Bogusława means
Where Bogusława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bogusława grows from Slavic roots, put together from two old words: Bóg, meaning God, and sława, meaning glory. Read together they give the sense preserved in the short meaning, god's glory, which Polish renders as sławiąca boga, a woman who praises God. The name is the feminine of Bogusław, a variant Polish families have used since the thirteenth century.
Everyday speech softens it. Among friends a Bogusława turns into Bogusia or Bognia, and on a school class register she may sign herself Sława. The full form waits for the line on an official document at the urząd.
Her imieniny are scattered across the year, from January into September. Most people keep the one that falls on May 29.
How many people are named Bogusława
1 in 485 women in Poland is named Bogusława. 46,525 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #198 among female names.
Bogusława's popularity over time
6 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #853 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2021. Still the #198 name among living women, even as it slips to #853 among newborns.
Where Bogusława is most popular
Bogusława is most popular in Greater Poland, 402% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+138%) and Masovian (+52%).
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Greater Poland4 girls born+402%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+138%
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Masovian2 girls born+52%
Bogusława as a middle name
Bogusława is a first name for 46,525 women in Poland and a middle name for another 23,319, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 81st, between Maja (23,460) and Regina (23,065).
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79
23,919Alina
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80
23,460Maja
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8123,319Bogusława
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82
23,065Regina
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83
22,836Michalina