Tomisław
Barely over a hundred men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet a Tomisław. It's an old Slavic compound joining "torment" and "sława", glory, and no boys have been given it in recent years.
Tomisław Pronunciation
Tomisław is pronounced to-MEES-wahf (/tɔˈmiswaf/).
What Tomisław means
Where Tomisław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tomisław belongs to the old Slavic habit of building a name from two words. The first part comes from the verb tomiti, to torment or oppress. The second is -sław, glory or fame, the ending shared with Bolesław and Stanisław. Read whole, the name means torment and glory.
That pairing sounds odd until you see how such names were assembled. The compound is blunt. Old Slavic names often bound a hard word to a bright one, and glory reached through struggle gave this one its logic.
Call the register in a Polish classroom and Tomisław sits a few desks from Tomasz, near in sound and far in root. The feminine Tomisława keeps the frame and trades the final vowel. Torment on one side, glory on the other.
How many people are named Tomisław
1 in 194056 men in Poland is named Tomisław. 110 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3256 among male names.
Tomisław as a middle name
Tomisław is a first name for 110 men in Poland and a middle name for another 52, a 68/32 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1048th, between Stéphane (52) and Volodymyr (52).
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#1046 Saleh52
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#1047 Stéphane52
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#1048 Tomisław52
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#1049 Volodymyr52
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#1050 Zdzislaw52