Zbisław
Fewer than a hundred Polish men carry it, and no boys have been given it in any year on record: meeting a Zbisław would stay with you. It's an old Slavic name meaning "famous in battle".
Zbisław Pronunciation
Zbisław is pronounced ZBEES-wahf (/ˈzbiswaf/).
What Zbisław means
Where Zbisław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Zbisław is Slavic, assembled from two older pieces the way many Polish names were. The second half, -sław, is the familiar one. It means glory or fame, and it sits inside Bolesław, Stanisław, and Mirosław. The first part, zby-, connects to the old verb „zbyć", meaning to be rid of something or to drive it off. The same zby- opens the name Zbigniew.
Put the two halves together and you get a person who earns renown by pushing an enemy back. That is the short meaning attached to the name today: famous in battle, in Polish sławny z walki. The sense of battle comes from reading the two roots together, rather than from one plain word for war.
The name is old and now rare. Meet a Zbisław on a class register and you have met a fragment of early Polish naming. No standard nickname trails it. The glory in it stays whole, held in that final -sław.
How many people are named Zbisław
1 in 288462 men in Poland is named Zbisław. 74 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4186 among male names.
Zbisław as a middle name
Zbisław is a first name for 74 men in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1583rd, between Yoel (29) and Abdallah (28).
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#1581 Yacov29
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#1582 Yoel29
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#1583 Zbisław29
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#1584 Abdallah28
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#1585 Alexandros28