Włodzisława
Just 55 Polish women carry it, and no girls have been given it in living memory: meet one and you'll remember it. A Slavic name meaning "to rule with glory", the feminine of Włodzisław.
Włodzisława Pronunciation
Włodzisława is pronounced vwo-jees-WAH-vah (/vwɔd͡ʑisˈwava/).
What Włodzisława means
Where Włodzisława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Włodzisława comes from two old Slavic roots. The first, włod-, belongs to the verb władać, to rule or hold sway. The second, sław, means glory or fame. Put together they give the sense the name still carries: to rule with glory, włada sławą.
Names built this way were common among the early Slavs, who joined two weighty words into one. The masculine variant Włodzisław follows the same pattern, and both belong to a family with Włodzimierz and the Russian Vladimir. Shorten the name and you reach Włodek, plain and easy in the mouth.
A child called Włodzisława today meets a rare name. Picture the moment a teacher reads it from the class register and pauses. The pause is the point. This is not a name that blends into a row of others.
The old sense has not faded. To rule with glory was a claim about standing among people, about a reputation that others honored. Włodzisława keeps that first root, władać, the word for holding power.
How many people are named Włodzisława
1 in 409888 women in Poland is named Włodzisława. 55 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5047 among female names.
Włodzisława as a middle name
Włodzisława is a first name for 55 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2892nd, between Włodzimira (8) and Yamina (8).
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#2890 Wieczysława8
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#2891 Włodzimira8
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#2892 Włodzisława8
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#2893 Yamina8
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#2894 Yuna8