Włodzisław
Only about 75 Polish men carry it, and no boys got it last year: meeting one would stick in your memory. A Slavic name for a "famous ruler", built from the old roots for rule and glory.
Włodzisław Pronunciation
Włodzisław is pronounced vwo-JEES-wahf (/vwɔˈd͡ʑiswaf/).
What Włodzisław means
Where Włodzisław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Włodzisław is built from two old Slavic pieces. The first part, włodzi, grows from a root meaning to rule or govern, the same one standing behind Władysław and Włodzimierz. The second, sław, means glory or fame. Together they give the short meaning any name book records: rule and glory, in Polish sławny władca, a famed ruler.
The name carries its grammar in the open. A boy grows into Włodek at home while the register keeps the full Włodzisław. For a girl there is Włodzisława, the cross-gender form that shifts the ending and little else.
That sław piece is no accident. It is one of the busiest elements in Polish naming, shared with Bolesław, Stanisław and Mirosław. A Włodzisław stands in that Slavic company. On the class list at the start of September, the full form holds its old sense before anyone speaks, rule joined to glory, shortened by the first break to Włodek.
How many people are named Włodzisław
1 in 284616 men in Poland is named Włodzisław. 75 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4148 among male names.
Włodzisław as a middle name
Włodzisław is a first name for 75 men in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 72/28 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1580th, between Wojmir (29) and Yacov (29).
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#1578 Wlodzimierz29
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#1579 Wojmir29
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#1580 Włodzisław29
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#1581 Yacov29
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#1582 Yoel29