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Stanislaw

Fewer than 400 men in Poland carry it, and it goes only to boys: most Poles have never met one. The root is Slavic, roughly "one who will become glory".

Stanislaw Pronunciation

Stanislaw is pronounced stah-NYEES-lahf (/staˈɲislaf/).

Alive in 2025
389
Newborns 2025
6
National rank
#1506

What Stanislaw means

Where Stanislaw comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Stanisław is built from two old Slavic roots. The first carries the idea of becoming or standing firm, the second means glory or fame. Put together they give the sense captured in Polish as ten, który stanie się sławny, the one who will become renowned. So the name reads almost as a small prophecy about its bearer.

Poland has carried the name for close to a thousand years. Stanisław of Szczepanów, the bishop of Kraków killed in 1079, became a patron saint of the country, and his name day falls on the eighth of May. Later a Stanisław sat on the throne as the last king, Stanisław August Poniatowski.

In daily life the full form softens. A boy called Stanisław answers to Staś at home, to Stach among friends, to Staszek on a school register. The feminine Stanisława follows the same pattern. Read the name back to its roots and you find that promise again: the one who will win fame.

How many people are named Stanislaw

1 in 54875 men in Poland is named Stanislaw. 389 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1506 among male names.

People with the name Stanislaw 2019 → 2025
389 +228 since 2019
2020 176 +15
2021 191 +15
2022 214 +23
2023 340 +126
2024 372 +32
2025 389 +17

Stanislaw's popularity over time

6 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #894 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2012.

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6 newborns with the name Stanislaw in 2025
national rank #894 that year

Where parents choose Stanislaw

Stanislaw is most popular in Lubusz, 559% above the national average (5 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+358%) and Warmian-Masurian (+174%). It is least common in Greater Poland and Silesian, 39% and 14% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Lubusz
    +559%
    1 in 9,931 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    +358%
    1 in 14,285 babies
  • Warmian-Masurian
    +174%
    1 in 23,931 babies
Chosen least
  • Greater Poland
    −39%
    1 in 107,622 babies
  • Silesian
    −14%
    1 in 75,861 babies
  • Masovian
    −8%
    1 in 70,853 babies

Stanislaw as a middle name

Stanislaw is a first name for 389 men in Poland and a middle name for another 586, a 40/60 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 295th, between Hipolit (589) and Oscar (584).

As a first name
389
As a middle name
586
first name 40% middle name 60%
Middle-name ranking men

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