Given name

Czeslaw

Czeslaw is a masculine given name from Polish. It is used in French.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Czeslaw comes from Polish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Polish Czesław.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Czeslaw through the years

Babies since 1880
18
18 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1919
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Czeslaw in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1918–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1920. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 597 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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