Given name & surname
Mirosław
“peace”
Mirosław is a masculine given name from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mirosław goes back to Proto-Slavic *Miroslavъ, meaning “peace.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mirosław’s family of names
In Polish usage, Mirosław has a diminutive in Mirek. In Polish usage, Mirosław shares a linguistic root with the Lithuanian form MIROSLAVAS. In Polish usage, Mirosław has a conventional equivalent in the Bosnian form Miroslav.
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Around the world
Mirosław has relatives in 14 languages.
9 related names in 14 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 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- MiroslavFrench, Slovene
- Myroslavequivalent
- Мирославcognate · Ukrainian, Russian
- Miroslavascognate · Lithuanian
- Miroslavoequivalent
- Mirosławafeminine form
- MiroslausGerman
- Мірославrue
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See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Mirosław
- Miroslav KloseGerman professional football manager and former playerborn 1978
- Mirosław HermaszewskiPolish cosmonaut (1941–2022)
- Mirosław SzymkowiakPolish association football playerborn 1976
- Mirosław BałkaPolish artist (born 1958)
- Mirosław AdamczykPolish archbishop and nuncioborn 1962
- Mirosław BulzackiPolish footballerborn 1951
- Mirosław ZiętarskiPolish rowerborn 1993
- Mirosław BakaPolish actorborn 1963
- Mirosław TrzeciakPolish footballerborn 1968
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