Meaning & origin
How it developed
Its Slavonic formation brings together rad (“glad”) and slav (“glory”).
Radosław’s family of names
Radosław has a short form in Radu. Radosław shares a linguistic root with Radoslav. In Polish usage, Radosław has a conventional equivalent in the Belarusian form Радаслаў.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Radosław has relatives in 5 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 4
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 Radosław
- Radosław SikorskiMinister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Polandborn 1963
- Radosław SobolewskiPolish footballerborn 1976
- Radosław WojtaszekPolish chess playerborn 1987
- Radosław KałużnyPolish footballerborn 1974
- Radosław MajdanPolish association football playerborn 1972
- Radosław KawęckiPolish swimmerborn 1991
- Radosław ZawrotniakPolish fencerborn 1981
- Radosław MajewskiPolish association football playerborn 1986
- Radosław MurawskiPolish association football playerborn 1994
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