Bratumiła
One of the rarest names on the register: only 11 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it this century. It comes from the old Slavic pieces brat, brother, and mił, dear, a name built on family closeness rather than a saint's day.
Bratumiła Pronunciation
Bratumiła is pronounced brah-too-MEE-wah (/bratuˈmiwa/).
What Bratumiła means
Where Bratumiła comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bratumiła is built from two old Slavic pieces. The first, brat, means brother. The second, mił, means dear or pleasing. Put together they read as dear brother, a bond named rather than a trait observed.
Names like this belonged to a wider Slavic habit of compounding. A parent could name a daughter after a relationship instead of a saint from the calendar. The masculine form bratumił carries the same halves in the same order, and the two have always leaned on each other.
The Polish gloss, miła bliskim, dear to those close by, tilts the sense a little. It turns the brother of the old roots into a warmth toward family and neighbours.
Bratumiła is rare now. You are unlikely to meet one on a school register in Warsaw. When the name does appear, it appears whole, and its meaning stays legible: brat and mił, brother and dear.
How many people are named Bratumiła
1 in 2049439 women in Poland is named Bratumiła. 11 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14865 among female names.
Bratumiła as a middle name
Bratumiła is a first name for 11 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 41/59 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1819th, between Bożydara (16) and Chido (16).
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#1817 Ayse16
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#1818 Bożydara16
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#1819 Bratumiła16
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#1820 Chido16
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#1821 Clarissa16