Zbysława
Just 42 Polish women carry it today, and not one girl has been given it since at least 2000: most Poles will never meet one. The Slavic root reads oddly, "dispel glory", though it shares a stem with the everyday nickname Zbyszek.
Zbysława Pronunciation
Zbysława is pronounced zbihs-WAH-vah (/zbɨsˈwava/).
What Zbysława means
Where Zbysława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zbysława belongs to the old family of Slavic two-part names, built from zby- and -sława. The second half, sława, means glory. The first, zby-, ties to a verb for doing away with something. Put together they give the short meaning: dispel glory.
That reading sets Zbysława apart. Most names ending in -sław promise glory, like Bolesław or Mirosław. Here the elements point the other way. The clearest witness is Zbigniew, where the same zby- meets gniew, anger, and the name is read as doing away with anger. Zbysława carries that grammar over a different second word.
The name has a masculine variant, zbysław, and the everyday form most Poles know is zbyszek. Read a class register in a Polish school and a Zbyszek will answer. The literal parse holds under all of it: zby- plus sława, dispel glory.
How many people are named Zbysława
1 in 536758 women in Poland is named Zbysława. 42 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5983 among female names.
Zbysława as a middle name
Zbysława is a first name for 42 women in Poland and a middle name for another 35, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1184th, between Merve (35) and Amaya (34).
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#1182 Madeline35
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#1183 Merve35
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#1184 Zbysława35
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#1185 Amaya34
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#1186 Anneliese34