Unisława
Just twelve women in Poland carry this name, and no girl has been given it this century. A Slavic name at root: uni "better" and sława "glory", together "better glory".
Unisława Pronunciation
Unisława is pronounced oo-nyees-WAH-vah (/uɲisˈwava/).
What Unisława means
Where Unisława comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Unisława grows from Slavic soil. Its ending, -sława, means glory or fame, and it ties the name to a wide Polish family: Mirosława, Stanisława, Bogusława. The opening element, uni-, holds a comparative sense, the idea of something better. Put the parts together and the name reads as lepsza sława, better glory.
The name belongs to an old layer of Slavic naming. There -sława marked rank and reputation, a signal of who a person was. Unisława is the feminine shape. It never grew common in Poland, and today it sounds closer to the medieval record than to any recent fashion.
Picture it read out from a register at the urząd. The clerk would pause. Few offices hold this name now. What lasts is the sense of the two parts, uni- for better and -sława for glory.
How many people are named Unisława
1 in 1878653 women in Poland is named Unisława. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14613 among female names.
Unisława as a middle name
Unisława is a first name for 12 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 52/48 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2343rd, between Uma (11) and Ute (11).
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#2341 Ulla11
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#2342 Uma11
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#2343 Unisława11
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#2344 Ute11
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#2345 Wiosna11