Given name & surname
Bogusław
“God”·“to celebrate”
Bogusław is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bogusław is built from elements meaning “God” and “to celebrate”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Its Slavonic formation brings together bog (“god”) and slav (“glory”).
Bogusław’s family of names
In Polish usage, Bogusław has a diminutive in Bodzio. Bogusław has a feminine form in Bogusława. In Polish usage, Bogusław has a conventional equivalent in the German form Boguslaus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bogusław has relatives in 6 languages.
9 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bogusław
- Bogusław LindaPolish actor, directorborn 1952
- Bogusław I of PomeraniaDuke of Pomerania-Stettin1130–1187
- Bogusław ZychPolish fencer (1951–1995)
- Bogusław MamińskiPolish long distance runnerborn 1955
- Bogusław LiberadzkiPolish politicianborn 1948
- Bogusław RadziwiłłPolish-Lithuanian noble (1620-1669)
- Bogusław SchaefferPolish composer (1929–2019)
- Bogusław Samborskiactor (1897-1971)
- Bogusław LeszczyńskiPolish nobleman (1612-1659)
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Similar names
If you love Bogusław, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Bolesław
“the most glorious”
>99% boys
Budzisław
>99% boys
Bronisław
“to protect”
>99% boys
Bogumil
“God” · “kind”
94% boys · 6% girls
Bogumierz
>99% boys
Bořivoj
“to defend” · “warrior”
>99% boys
Rościsław
“to grow” · “fame, glory”
>99% boys
Dobrosław
>99% boys
Sibling ideas
Names that share Bogusław’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.
A brother for Bogusław