FlakyMatt's Personal Name List

Zdzisław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ZHJEE-swaf
Slavic name, possibly from the element děti "to do, to say" combined with slava "glory".
Włodzisław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Archaic)
Pronounced: vwaw-JEE-swaf
Old Polish form of Vladislav.
Władysław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: vwa-DI-swaf
Polish form of Vladislav. This was the name of four kings of Poland.
Wisław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: VEE-swaf
Contracted form of Witosław.
Wiesław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: VYEH-swaf
Contracted form of Wielisław.
Wielisław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: vyeh-LEE-swaf
Derived from the Slavic elements velĭ "great" and slava "glory".
Więcesław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Archaic)
Older Polish form of Veceslav (see Václav).
Świętosław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Archaic)
Pronounced: shfyehn-TAW-swaf
Polish form of Svyatoslav.
Sulisław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Archaic)
Pronounced: soo-LEE-swaf
Derived from Slavic sulěi meaning "better" or "promise" combined with slava meaning "glory".
Stanisław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: sta-NYEE-swaf
Polish form of Stanislav. Two kings of Poland have borne this name, as well as a few saints.
Sobiesław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: saw-BYEH-swaf
Derived from Slavic elements, probably sebě "to oneself" and slava "glory". This name (in the Czech form Soběslav) was borne by two 12th-century dukes of Bohemia.
Radosław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ra-DAW-swaf
Derived from the Slavic elements radŭ "happy, willing" and slava "glory".
Przemysław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: psheh-MI-swaf
Medieval variant of Przemysł, with the addition of the Slavic element slava "glory".
Mścisław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: MSHCHEES-waf
Polish form of Mstislav.
Mirosław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: mee-RAW-swaf
Polish form of Miroslav.
Miłosław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Rare)
Pronounced: mee-WAW-swaf
Polish cognate of Miloslav.
Mieczysław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: myeh-CHI-swaf
Possibly derived from the Slavic elements mečĭ "sword" and slava "glory".
Lesław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: LEH-swaf
Short form of Lechosław.
Lechosław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: leh-KHAW-swaf
Derived from (possibly) the Polish name Lech combined with the Slavic element slava meaning "glory".
Jarosław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: ya-RAW-swaf
Polish form of Yaroslav.
Dobrosław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: daw-BRAW-swaf
Polish form of Dobroslav.
Czesław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: CHEHS-waf
Derived from the Slavic elements čĭstĭ "honour" and slava "glory".
Bronisław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: braw-NYEE-swaf
Derived from the Slavic elements borna "protection" and slava "glory". A famous Polish anthropologist, Bronisław Malinowski (1884-1942), has borne this name.
Bolesław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: baw-LEH-swaf
Derived from Slavic boľe "more, greater" and slava "glory". This was the name of kings of Poland, starting in the 11th century with the first Polish king Bolesław the Brave.
Bogusław
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: baw-GOO-swaf
Means "glory of God" from the Slavic elements bogŭ "god" and slava "glory". This name was borne by several dukes of Pomerania, beginning in the 12th century.
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