Radosława
Just 465 women in Poland carry it, and no baby girls got it last year, so meeting one would stick with you. It's Slavic, the feminine match to Radosław, and reads as "happy glory."
Radosława Pronunciation
Radosława is pronounced rah-dos-WAH-vah (/radɔsˈwava/).
What Radosława means
Where Radosława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Radosława is a Slavic compound, built from two old roots. The first, rad, means glad or happy; the second, sław, means glory or fame. Put together they give the English gloss "happy glory." Polish readers hear the name a little differently, as troszcząca się o sławę, one who tends to her good name.
The masculine form Radosław is the older sibling in the record, and the feminine grew beside it. Trim the name down and you reach the warmer, everyday versions: Radka in the schoolyard, or simply Rada.
There is a fixed place for the name in the Polish calendar. A Radosława finds her imieniny on the eighth and ninth of September, a week or so after summer ends and the class register opens on a new school year. That September pairing links her back to Radosław, who shares the same date. So the name arrives twice a year, once at a birthday and once in early autumn, and each time it says the same plain thing: glad fame, Rada for short.
How many people are named Radosława
1 in 48481 women in Poland is named Radosława. 465 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1372 among female names.
Radosława as a middle name
Radosława is a first name for 465 women in Poland and a middle name for another 286, a 62/38 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 398th, between Zoe (288) and Dżesika (285).
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#396 Ema288
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#397 Zoe288
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#398 Radosława286
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#399 Dżesika285
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#400 Nicol285