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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/).

Alive in 2025
46,525
Newborns 2025
6
National rank
#198
Next name day
18 April
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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.

When Bogusława celebrates name day

Bogusława appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 18 April.

Next name day
18 April
Sunday in 2027
Next one in 175 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Bogusława

1 in 485 women in Poland is named Bogusława. 46,525 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #198 among female names.

People with the name Bogusława 2019 → 2025
46,525 −3,020 since 2019
2020 49,345 −200
2021 48,763 −582
2022 48,151 −612
2023 47,555 −596
2024 47,064 −491
2025 46,525 −539

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.

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6 newborns with the name Bogusława in 2025
national rank #853 that year

Where parents choose Bogusława

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%).

Chosen most
  • Greater Poland
    +402%
    1 in 53,811 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +138%
    1 in 113,458 babies
  • Masovian
    +52%
    1 in 177,133 babies

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).

As a first name
46,525
As a middle name
23,319
first name 67% middle name 33%
Middle-name ranking women

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