Żelisława
One of the rarest names on record here: about 27 women carry it, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000. A Slavic name meaning "desiring glory".
Żelisława Pronunciation
Żelisława is pronounced zhe-lees-WAH-vah (/ʐɛlisˈwava/).
What Żelisława means
Where Żelisława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Żelisława is a Slavic name built from two old parts. The first comes from a verb meaning to desire or long for. The second, `sław`, means glory or fame. Read together, they give the short meaning that dictionaries record: desiring glory.
The masculine variant is Żelisław. Both belong to the old family of Slavic dithematic names, where two roots join to form a wish or a claim. Names like this were common among the early Slavs, and the `sław` element appears in many of them, from Bogusław to Mirosław. The first root usually said what the wish was about, and here it points to wanting, to reaching for fame.
On a Polish class register, Żelisława would sit as a rare entry, older than most of the names around it. It signals fame and the wish for it. The meaning stays legible in the second root, `sław`, glory.
How many people are named Żelisława
1 in 834957 women in Poland is named Żelisława. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8209 among female names.
Żelisława as a middle name
Żelisława is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1693rd, between Zuzana (19) and Aiko (18).
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#1691 Zelda19
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#1692 Zuzana19
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#1693 Żelisława19
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#1694 Aiko18
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#1695 Ama18