Given name & surname
Sobiesław
“glorious in himself”
Sobiesław is a masculine given name from Czech. It is used in Polish.
Original CzechSoběslav
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sobiesław goes back to a word meaning “glorious in himself.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sobiesław’s family of names
In Polish usage, Sobiesław as a surname has a diminutive in Sobień. In Polish usage, Sobiesław has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Soběslav.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 1
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 Sobiesław
- Sobiesław ZasadaPolish rally driverborn 1930
- Sobiesław I, Duke of PomeraniaDuke of Pomerania1130–1187
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