Żywisław
So rare that most Poles have never met one: about six men carry it, and no boy has been given it in years. A Slavic name built from roots meaning "famous life".
Żywisław Pronunciation
Żywisław is pronounced zhih-VEES-wahf (/ʐɨˈviswaf/).
What Żywisław means
Where Żywisław comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name żywisław comes from two Slavic roots. The first, żyw-, means living or alive. The second, -sław, means glory or fame. Together they give a plain sense: living glory, or a famous life.
That -sław ending places żywisław in a crowded Polish family. Stanisław, Mirosław, Bronisław all share it. The feminine form is żywisława, built from the same two parts, and it reads the same way, a life marked by renown.
The name is made from words in ordinary use, so it stays legible now. A child called żywisław on a school register can still hear żyć, to live, inside it. The word for glory sits right beside it. Living glory: that is the reading the two halves still give.
How many people are named Żywisław
1 in 3557698 men in Poland is named Żywisław. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #24744 among male names.
Żywisław as a middle name
Żywisław is a first name for 6 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 9156th, between Żilbert (2) and Ɖình (2).
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#9154 Żerard2
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#9155 Żilbert2
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#9156 Żywisław2
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#9157 Ɖình2
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#9158 Ɖức2