Milawia
Only two women in Poland carry it, a name most people here will never meet. It comes from Slavic roots, built on the word for "dear", the same root behind the short form Mila.
Milawia Pronunciation
Milawia is pronounced mee-LAHV-yah (/miˈlavja/).
What Milawia means
Where Milawia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Milawia grows from the Slavic root mil-, the same root behind the Polish words miły and miła, meaning dear and kind. That root runs through a whole class of old two-stem Slavic names, and it gives Milawia its plain sense of dear, beloved.
The name belongs to an early group of Slavic feminine forms that Polish speakers built long before parish records were common. Milawia keeps the soft first syllable of that root while its ending sets it beside other names of the same old pattern.
In daily use the name shortens. The diminutive is Mila. On a school register a teacher might read Milawia in full once, then settle into Mila for the rest of the year. That short form does most of the work, in the classroom and on a form at the urząd. Whatever the setting, the root holds: mil-, and the sense of miła that ordinary Polish still carries.
When Milawia celebrates name day
Milawia appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 17 October.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Milawia
1 in 11271917 women in Poland is named Milawia. 2 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #56084 among female names.