Darosław
Around 142 men in Poland carry it, and none were born this century: most Poles will never meet one. A Slavic name built from the roots for "gift" and "glory".
Darosław Pronunciation
Darosław is pronounced dah-ROS-wahf (/daˈrɔswaf/).
What Darosław means
Where Darosław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Darosław comes from two Slavic roots joined into one name. The first part, daro-, grows from dar, the word for gift. The second part, -sław, means glory or fame. Together they read as gift of glory, or in Polish obdarzony sławą.
That second element links Darosław to a wide Slavic family. Stanisław, Bronisław, Mirosław and Władysław all end the same way. These dithematic names go back more than a thousand years. Darosław is one of the scarcer branches on that tree.
Say the name at an urząd and a clerk may ask you to spell it. It stays uncommon on Polish forms today. The stress falls on the third syllable, da-ro-SŁAW. And the meaning holds steady: a gift, and the glory folded into that old ending -sław.
How many people are named Darosław
1 in 150325 men in Poland is named Darosław. 142 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2744 among male names.
Darosław as a middle name
Darosław is a first name for 142 men in Poland and a middle name for another 33, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1436th, between Calvin (33) and Dũng (33).
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#1434 Benito33
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#1435 Calvin33
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#1436 Darosław33
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#1437 Dũng33
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#1438 Emeryk33