Grodzisław
Just two men in all of Poland carry it, and records since 2000 show no newborn given the name. Slavic at root: "stronghold glory", from gród, a fortified settlement, and sława, fame.
Grodzisław Pronunciation
Grodzisław is pronounced gro-JEES-wahf (/grɔˈd͡ʑiswaf/).
What Grodzisław means
Where Grodzisław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Grodzisław belongs to the old family of Slavic dithematic names, the kind built from two meaningful halves. The first half, gród, named a fortified settlement, a stronghold behind ramparts of earth and oak. The second, sław, meant glory. Read plainly, the name says stronghold glory, the fame of a fortified place.
Names like this were once given to mark a child for standing among people. A bearer wore his gród in his name.
Today Grodzisław is rare. You might meet it in a parish record or an old charter rather than a school register. The word gród still lives in Polish town names that begin with Grodzisk, and in gród itself, the fortified core of an early town. That is the same pairing a Grodzisław has carried since the earliest charters: gród, the stronghold, joined to sława, its glory.
How many people are named Grodzisław
1 in 10673094 men in Poland is named Grodzisław. 2 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #50177 among male names.
Grodzisław as a middle name
Grodzisław is a first name for 2 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 40/60 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6298th, between Grigorios (3) and Grzgorz (3).
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#6296 Grigorij3
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#6297 Grigorios3
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#6298 Grodzisław3
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#6299 Grzgorz3
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#6300 Guilhem3