Bożysława
Fewer than 60 Polish women carry Bożysława, and no girl has been given it in the last 25 years. It's an old Slavic name meaning "god's glory", built to praise the divine.
Bożysława Pronunciation
Bożysława is pronounced bo-zhihs-WAH-vah (/bɔʐɨsˈwava/).
What Bożysława means
Where Bożysława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bożysława grows from two old Slavic roots. The first is Bóg, god. The second is sława, glory. Put together they carry the short meaning recorded for the name: god's glory. In Polish the sense is sławiąca boga, a woman who gives praise to god.
The masculine form is Bożysław, the same name across the gender line. Both belong to a large family of Slavic compound names ending in -sław, where that element meant glory or fame in early Slavic speech. Bogusław and Mirosław are close relatives, built from the same pattern of one root joined to sława.
Read a Polish class register and a name like this stands out. It is long and clearly made from parts a child can take apart. A pupil finds Bóg at the front and sława at the end, then says what the whole thing means. The origin is Slavic, the reading is god's glory, and the masculine twin is Bożysław.
How many people are named Bożysława
1 in 442036 women in Poland is named Bożysława. 51 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5254 among female names.
Bożysława as a middle name
Bożysława is a first name for 51 women in Poland and a middle name for another 37, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1136th, between Anżelika (37) and Catharina (37).
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#1134 Annemarie37
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#1135 Anżelika37
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#1136 Bożysława37
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#1137 Catharina37
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#1138 Estella37