Mirosław
Around 176,000 Polish men carry it, but it's fading from the maternity ward: just 28 boys got it last year. A Slavic name meaning "peace and glory".
Mirosław Pronunciation
Mirosław is pronounced mee-ROS-wahf (/miˈrɔswaf/).
What Mirosław means
Where Mirosław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mirosław is a Slavic name built from two old roots. The first, mir, means peace; the second, sław, means glory. Put together they give the phrase Poles still use, sławiący pokój, one who praises peace, and in English simply peace and glory. Those halves belong to a wide family of Slavic compound names, so sław also closes Stanisław, while mir opens the feminine Mirosława.
The name has real bearers to point to. Mirosław Hermaszewski, born in 1941, became the first Polish person in space when he flew aboard Soyuz 30 in 1978. Poles had used his name for centuries before any rocket left the ground.
In a school register a teacher might read the full Mirosław once, then call the boy Mirek for the rest of the year. The diminutives soften things: Mira and Mirka do the same for Mirosława and its variant Miroslava. Short and easy. The full form stays on official paperwork, the shorter one gets used aloud. The meaning holds either way: peace and glory.
How many people are named Mirosław
1 in 121 men in Poland is named Mirosław. 176,127 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #81 among male names.
Mirosław's popularity over time
28 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #451 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #81 name among living men, even as it slips to #451 among newborns.
Where Mirosław is most popular
Mirosław is most popular in West Pomeranian, 95% above the national average (18 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+57%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+42%). It is least common in Łódź and Lublin, 49% and 38% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian18 boys born+95%
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Lower Silesian27 boys born+57%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian17 boys born+42%
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Greater Poland33 boys born+40%
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Warmian-Masurian9 boys born+15%
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Lesser Poland25 boys born+1%
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Subcarpathian13 boys born−1%
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Pomeranian16 boys born−1%
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Masovian35 boys born−10%
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Silesian20 boys born−20%
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Lubusz4 boys born−26%
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Podlaskie5 boys born−30%
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Lublin7 boys born−38%
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Łódź7 boys born−49%
Mirosław as a middle name
Mirosław is a first name for 176,127 men in Poland and a middle name for another 68,158, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 43rd, between Edward (68,561) and Dawid (65,167).
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41
70,058Artur
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42
68,561Edward
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4368,158Mirosław
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44
65,167Dawid
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45
62,511Daniel