Given name
Mieczysław
“sword”·“glory”
Mieczysław is a masculine given name. It is used in Polish.
Original CzechMečislav
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mieczysław is built from elements meaning “sword” and “glory”.
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Mieczysław’s family of names
In Polish usage, Mieczysław has a short form in Mieszko. In Polish usage, Mieczysław shares a linguistic root with the Lithuanian form Mečislovas. In Polish usage, Mieczysław has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Mečislav.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mieczysław has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Czech roots to each of them.
Czechwhere Mieczysław comes from · 1 name
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 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Mieczysław
- Mieczysław Rakowskiformer First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (1926–2008)
- Mieczysław KarłowiczPolish composer and conductor (1876-1909)
- Mieczysław WeinbergPolish Soviet composer (1919–1996)
- Mieczysław HorszowskiPolish musician (1892–1993)
- Mieczysław MokrzyckiPolish bishopborn 1961
- Mieczysław FoggPolish singer (1901-1990)
- Mieczysław Halka-LedóchowskiPolish cardinal (1822–1902)
- Mieczysław JastrunPolish poet and essayist (1903–1983)
- Mieczysław NowickiPolish racing cyclistborn 1951
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