Sobiesława
Just 16 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. It's the feminine form of Sobiesław, a Slavic name meaning "glory for oneself".
Sobiesława Pronunciation
Sobiesława is pronounced sob-yes-WAH-vah (/sɔbjɛsˈwava/).
What Sobiesława means
Where Sobiesława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sobiesława is a Slavic name built from two old parts. The first, "sobie", means for oneself. The second, "-sław", means glory or fame. Put together they give the sense of glory for oneself, or in Polish zachowująca sławę dla siebie. That way of forming names was common among the early Slavs.
The name has a masculine variant, Sobiesław, which draws on the same two roots. The "-sław" ending ties it to a large family of Slavic names such as Bolesław and Stanisław. The root travels beyond Poland too. In Bohemia it took the form Soběslav, the name of dukes who ruled in the twelfth century, among them Soběslav I.
Read the name on a class register and the meaning stays close to the surface. A girl called Sobiesława keeps her own glory, glory held by her rather than granted by someone else. The forms stay simple: Sobiesław for a boy, Sobiesława for a girl.
How many people are named Sobiesława
1 in 1408990 women in Poland is named Sobiesława. 16 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #11759 among female names.
Sobiesława as a middle name
Sobiesława is a first name for 16 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3425th, between Sita (6) and Solomija (6).
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#3423 Silver6
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#3424 Sita6
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#3425 Sobiesława6
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#3426 Solomija6
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#3427 Sudhakar6