Given name
Mečislovas
“glory of the sword”
Mečislovas is a masculine given name from Proto-Slavic, meaning “glory of the sword.” It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Proto-Slavic *Mečislavъ (“glory of the sword”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mečislovas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Mečislovas shares a linguistic root with the Polish form MIECZYSŁAW. In Lithuanian usage, Mečislovas has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form MIECZYSŁAW.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mečislovas
- Mečislovas ReinysCatholic archbishop, professor, and politician (1884-1953)
- Mečislovas GedvilasLithuanian politician (1901-1981)
- Mečislovas Davainis-SilvestraitisLithuanian writer1849–1919
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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