Wojsław
Barely 32 men in Poland carry it, and none were born last year: most Poles will never meet one. The name is Slavic, put together from the roots for warrior and glory.
Wojsław Pronunciation
Wojsław is pronounced VOYS-wahf (/ˈvɔjswaf/).
What Wojsław means
Where Wojsław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wojsław comes from two old Slavic roots. The first, woj-, meant a warrior or a fighting man. The second, -sław, meant glory or fame. Together they give the sense the name still carries: warrior glory. The roots are Slavic. That same -sław closes Bolesław and Mirosław, while woj- opens Wojciech, a much commoner neighbour.
The name has a feminine twin, Wojsława. It keeps both roots and shifts them across the line between a boy's name and a girl's. Both forms stayed rare, older on a register than almost anything beside them.
Read from a school class register, Wojsław sounds like a line from an early chronicle. The child who answers to it holds a word for glory won in a fight. Its meaning stays legible after a thousand years: the glory of a warrior.
How many people are named Wojsław
1 in 667068 men in Poland is named Wojsław. 32 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7226 among male names.
Wojsław as a middle name
Wojsław is a first name for 32 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2718th, between Witt (13) and Zalman (13).
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#2716 Waseem13
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#2717 Witt13
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#2718 Wojsław13
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#2719 Zalman13
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#2720 Ziv13