Meaning & origin
How it developed
Its Slavonic formation brings together chest (“honour”) and slav (“glory”).
Czesław’s family of names
In Polish usage, Czesław has a diminutive in Czesiek. Czesław shares a linguistic root with Ceslav. In Polish usage, Czesław has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form CESLAO.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Czesław has relatives in 13 languages.
12 related names in 13 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
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 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Časlaŭequivalent
- Časlavequivalent
- ЧеславRussian, Ukrainian
- Czesławafeminine form · Polish
- Česlovascognate · Lithuanian
- CeslaoItalian, Spanish
- CeslauPortuguese
- CeslausGerman, Latin
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People named Czesław
- Czesław MiłoszPolish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
- Czesław KiszczakPolish military officer and politician (1925–2015)
- Czesław NiemenPolish rock musician (1939–2004)
- Czesław MichniewiczPolish association football manager (born 1970)
- Czesław LangPolish road racing cyclistborn 1955
- Czeslaw KozonRoman Catholic bishop of Copenhagenborn 1951
- Czesław SłaniaPolish artist (1921–2005)
- Czesław KwiecińskiOlympic wrestlerborn 1943
- Czesław PetelskiPolish film director (1922-1996)
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