Miroslaw
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ) Miroslav: aus dem Pol nischen (Miroslaw) oder Tschechischen/Slo wenischen/Serbischen/Kroatischen (Miro slav) übernommener männl
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/mʲirɔs̪laf/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Miroslaw is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 7.8K
- SESweden1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,663 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)) Miroslav: aus dem Pol nischen (Miroslaw) oder Tschechischen/Slo wenischen/Serbischen/Kroatischen (Miro slav) übernommener männl. Vom. (urslaw. *mir& »Friede« + urslaw. *slava »Ruhm,
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Miroslaw counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,663 | 1 in 200K | 1.7K | Miroslaw | 170 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | listed | Miroslaw | 86 |
| NO Norway | — | 699 | 1 in 7.8K | 2K | Miroslaw | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 583 | 1 in 18K | 583 | Miroslaw | 21 |
| FR France | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 186K | 5 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 189 | 1 in 31K | 189 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 129 | 1 in 2.7K | 129 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Miroslaw | 21 |
| PL Poland | #103 | 111 | 1 in 345K | 111 | Miroslaw | 168 |
1,663 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Miroslaw is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Polish: from an old Slavonic personal name composed of the elements meri great, famous (see CASIMIR ) + slav glory. Cognate: Czech, Russian: Miroslav. Feminine forms: Polish: Miroslawa. Czech: Miroslava .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Miroslaw Rogalab. 1954PLPolish-American pioneer of interactive multimedia art
- Miroslaw Magolab. 1959PLPolish artist
- Miroslav Nemirovb. 1961RUnot in their usual nameRussian poet (1961–2016)
- Miroslav Terzićb. 1969RSnot in their usual nameSerbian film director (born 1969)
- Miroslav Kostadinovb. 1976BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer-songwriter
- Mirosław Aleksander Miernikb. 1980PLnot in their usual namebirth date: 21/07/1980
- Miroslav Manolovb. 1985BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Miroslav Budinovb. 1986BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Miroslav Natsjevb. 1990BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian association football player
- Miroslav Kirchevb. 1990BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian canoeist
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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Miroslaw?
- In Polish /mʲirɔs̪laf/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Miroslaw a male or female name?
- Miroslaw is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Norway (SSB), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Finland (DVV) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), among others.
- What does the name Miroslaw mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Miroslav: aus dem Pol nischen (Miroslaw) oder Tschechischen/Slo wenischen/Serbischen/Kroatischen (Miro slav) übernommener männl.
- In which country does Miroslaw have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Miroslaw, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miroslaw.
- Where is Miroslaw most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Miroslaw is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Miroslaw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,663 people named Miroslaw in 2020, about 1 in 200 thousand residents.
- How common is Miroslaw compared with other names?
- In Poland, Miroslaw is the 103rd most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miroslawThe 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, “Miroslaw” — the 103rd most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.