Behind the Name: 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.