Radzisław
Rare enough that most Poles have never met one: only about 200 men carry it, and no boys received it last year. It's an old Slavic compound of "radzi," to counsel, and "sław," glory: wise advice that earns renown.
Radzisław Pronunciation
Radzisław is pronounced rah-JEES-wahf (/raˈd͡ʑiswaf/).
What Radzisław means
Where Radzisław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Radzisław grows from two old Slavic roots. The first, "radzi," means to counsel or advise; the second, "sław," means glory. Put together they give the sense captured in Polish as "radzić sławnie," to counsel with renown. A person named Radzisław holds a claim to wise words made famous.
The name belongs to the family of early Polish compound names, where one part named a deed and the other named its reward. Its cross-gender form is Radzisława. In daily speech the whole thing shortens to Radek, the friendly form a boy answers to in a school class register.
Radek does a lot of work. It softens the older name for playgrounds and phone calls, while Radzisław keeps its full length for an official form at the urząd.
The meaning stays close to the roots: counsel and glory, advice worth remembering.
How many people are named Radzisław
1 in 97918 men in Poland is named Radzisław. 218 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2115 among male names.
Radzisław as a middle name
Radzisław is a first name for 218 men in Poland and a middle name for another 93, a 70/30 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 748th, between Luigi (93) and Siegfried (92).
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#746 Babu93
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#747 Luigi93
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#748 Radzisław93
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#749 Siegfried92
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#750 Stephan92