Olesława
Fewer than 50 women in Poland carry this name, and none have been born since 2000, so most Poles have never met one. Its Slavic roots read as "servant of glory".
Olesława Pronunciation
Olesława is pronounced o-les-WAH-vah (/ɔlɛsˈwava/).
What Olesława means
Where Olesława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Olesława grows from Slavic soil. Its ending, -sław, comes from the old word slava, meaning glory, the same piece that closes Mirosław and Bronisław. Names built with -sław belong to the oldest layer of Slavic personal names. The full compound has been read as servant of glory, sługa sławy in Polish.
Few people carry the whole name day to day. It shortens fast. Ola at the door, Olesia among family, Sława on a stiffer form. Each one counts as a real form of the same name.
There is a masculine counterpart too, Olesław, built from the same two parts. Open a school class register and the full Olesława is rare, while Ola fills several rows. The old sense holds under all of them. Servant of glory, sługa sławy.
How many people are named Olesława
1 in 490083 women in Poland is named Olesława. 46 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5643 among female names.
Olesława as a middle name
Olesława is a first name for 46 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2314th, between Ojcumiła (11) and Ophelia (11).
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#2312 Norah11
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#2313 Ojcumiła11
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#2314 Olesława11
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#2315 Ophelia11
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#2316 Praise11