Wieczysława
Only about two dozen women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it this century. A Slavic name meaning "eternal glory", built on the same root as its variant Wieczysław.
Wieczysława Pronunciation
Wieczysława is pronounced vye-chihs-WAH-vah (/vjɛt͡ʂɨsˈwava/).
What Wieczysława means
Where Wieczysława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Wieczysława grows from Slavic roots. Its two parts, wieczy- from wieczny, "eternal," and sława, "glory," give the compound its short meaning: eternal glory. Polish speakers read it as wiecznie sławna, the woman whose fame does not end.
Old Slavic naming built words this way, joining two bright terms into one. Wieczysława belongs to that dithematic family, alongside Mirosława and Bronisława, where sława sits at the end and the front half fixes the sense. Here the front says "eternal," and nothing more.
The masculine form is Wieczysław.
On a school register the two would sit almost together, one letter apart. Eternal glory is a large claim to pin on a small child. That reading settled onto the name from its parts, not from any single famous bearer. A girl called Wieczysława holds the plain meaning: wiecznie sławna, eternal glory.
How many people are named Wieczysława
1 in 980167 women in Poland is named Wieczysława. 23 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9192 among female names.
Wieczysława as a middle name
Wieczysława is a first name for 23 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2890th, between Whitney (8) and Włodzimira (8).
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#2888 Wan8
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#2889 Whitney8
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#2890 Wieczysława8
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#2891 Włodzimira8
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#2892 Włodzisława8