Wielisława
No girl has been given this name since at least 2000, and only about 245 women carry it today: meeting one would stay with you. It's Slavic at root, built from wieli and sława, "great glory".
Wielisława Pronunciation
Wielisława is pronounced vye-lees-WAH-vah (/vjɛlisˈwava/).
What Wielisława means
Where Wielisława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wielisława comes from Slavic roots, a compound built from two old parts. The first, wieli-, means great. The second, sława, means glory or renown. Together they read as wielka sława, great glory. The masculine form of the name is Wielisław.
That second root ties Wielisława to a wide family of Slavic names: Bogusław, Stanisław, Mirosław. In each, sława marked a person's good name and how far it traveled among others. What the first part adds here is scale. The glory named is a great one.
The meaning lives in the roots. On a Polish school register the full Wielisława can sit above its shortened everyday forms, a long name doing formal duty. Nothing about it needs decoding once you know the two words inside it: wieli and sława, great and glory.
How many people are named Wielisława
1 in 92016 women in Poland is named Wielisława. 245 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1978 among female names.
Wielisława as a middle name
Wielisława is a first name for 245 women in Poland and a middle name for another 31, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1276th, between Wendy (31) and Zelma (31).
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#1274 Waldemara31
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#1275 Wendy31
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#1276 Wielisława31
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#1277 Zelma31
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#1278 Alessia30