Given name · also Old Slavonic
Mieczyslaw
Mieczyslaw is used as a given name.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
A possible origin is Polish, although the derivation remains uncertain.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mieczyslaw through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 96
- 96 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 1921. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 740 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.
Mieczyslaw’s family of names
Mieczyslaw has an affectionate form in Meček. Mieczyslaw shares a linguistic root with Mecheslav. Mieczyslaw has a related form in Masław.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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