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Zdzisław

Around 89,000 Polish men carry it, but it barely reaches a new generation: just eight boys got it last year. From Slavic roots, the name reads as "builder of glory".

Zdzisław Pronunciation

Zdzisław is pronounced ZJEES-wahf (/ˈzd͡ʑiswaf/).

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Zdzisława
Alive in 2025
88,799
Newborns 2025
8
National rank
#133
Next name day
28 November
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What Zdzisław means

Where Zdzisław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Zdzisław is Slavic to the bone, built from two old roots. One means to build or make, the other means glory. Together they give the sense the calendar of names records: budujący sławę, a builder of glory. The name states an ambition in plain terms, and it hands the child a verb rather than an ornament.

Poland keeps a feminine twin, Zdzisława, so the pair can sit together in one family or one register. Zdzisław celebrates most often on January 29, the busiest of his several imieniny dates.

The name found its loudest carrier in Zdzisław Beksiński, the painter who was murdered in 2005 and whose bleak, dreamlike canvases hang today in Sanok. His fame did not soften the name. If anything it made "builder of glory" sound literal, since the man raised his own strange renown out of oil and board.

Say it slowly and the meaning still holds: to make, and glory. A short name. Zdzisława stands right beside it.

When Zdzisław celebrates name day

Zdzisław appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 29 January.

Next name day
28 November
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Next one in 34 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Zdzisław

1 in 240 men in Poland is named Zdzisław. 88,799 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #133 among male names.

People with the name Zdzisław 2019 → 2025
88,799 −21,928 since 2019
2020 108,851 −1,876
2021 104,421 −4,430
2022 99,873 −4,548
2023 95,955 −3,918
2024 92,444 −3,511
2025 88,799 −3,645

Zdzisław's popularity over time

8 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #782 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2006. Still the #133 name among living men, even as it slips to #782 among newborns.

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8 newborns with the name Zdzisław in 2025
national rank #782 that year

Where parents choose Zdzisław

Zdzisław is most popular in Pomeranian, 286% above the national average (5 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+221%) and Lesser Poland (+100%).

Chosen most
  • Pomeranian
    +286%
    1 in 29,464 babies
  • Masovian
    +221%
    1 in 35,427 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +100%
    1 in 56,729 babies

Zdzisław as a middle name

Zdzisław is a first name for 88,799 men in Poland and a middle name for another 50,403, a 64/36 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 58th, between Bogdan (50,472) and Waldemar (47,337).

As a first name
88,799
As a middle name
50,403
first name 64% middle name 36%
Middle-name ranking men

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