Czesław
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Chester
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t͡ʂɛswaf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Czesław is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland.
- PLPoland
- DEGermany
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Chester
Sources 1
- Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- PLPoland
- GBUnited Kingdom
- DEGermany
- FRFrance
- UAUkraine
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Czesław Domaniewskib. 1861PLPolish architect (1861–1936)
- Czesław Miłoszb. 1911PLPolish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
- Czesław Wołłejkob. 1916PLPolish actor (1916-1987)
- Czesław Petelskib. 1922PLPolish film director (1922-1996)
- Czesław Kiszczakb. 1925PLPolish military officer and politician (1925–2015)
- Czesław Niemenb. 1939PLPolish rock musician (1939–2004)
- Czesław Kwiecińskib. 1943PLOlympic wrestler
- Czesław Piątasb. 1946PLPolish general
- Czesław Michniewiczb. 1970PLPolish association football manager (born 1970)
- Czesław Śpiewab. 1979PLPolish singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Czesław?
- In the etymology graph, Czesława is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Czesław mean, and where does it come from?
- Chester Recorded by Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24).
- How do you pronounce Czesław?
- A machine transcription gives /t͡ʂɛswaf/ (IPA) for Polish.
- Is Czesław a male or female name?
- Czesław is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Czesław have the most bearers?
- Czesław is most frequently recorded in Poland.
What do you want to know about Czesław?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/czes%C5%82awThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Czesław”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.