Stanislaw
Stanislaw is a boy's name that peaked in 1917, when it was the 1,175th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 250 Stanislaws are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Stanislaw
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 489
- Estimated living today
- 250
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 1917
- Best rank
- 1,175th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1911
How old the living Stanislaws are
born that year still alive today
Of the 489 babies given the name since 1911, about 250 are alive — 52 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Stanislaws
- Stanisław Lem (1921–2006)Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor
- Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732–1798)King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- Stanisław Ulam (1909–1984)Polish-American mathematician
- Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966)Polish writer
- Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766)King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872)Polish composer
- Stanislaw Shushkievich (1934–2022)Belarusian nuclear physicist and politician
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885–1939)Polish artist, dramatist and novelist
People named Stanislaw with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Stanislaw is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Stanislaw is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (8.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1917
The most popular boys’ names the year Stanislaw peaked:
Stanislaw elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Stanisław +1 spelling | 67,930 birth registrations | 10th |
| England and Wales boys | Stanislaw | 778 | 581st |
| France boys | Stanislaw | 735 | 186th |
| Norway boys | Stanislaw | 668 | 151st |
| Ireland boys | Stanislaw | 126 | 290th |
| Scotland boys | Stanislaw | 96 | 383rd |
| Switzerland boys | Stanislaw +1 spelling | 43 | 986th |
| Belgium boys | Stanislaw | 22 | 1,110th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Stanislaw | 6 | 378th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Stanislaw: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Stanislaw | 31 | 0.002% | 733rd |
| German boys | Switzerland | Stanisław | 3 | 0.000% | 1,188th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Stanislaw | 9 | 0.002% | 642nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Stanislaw: rank by region
In 2018, Stanislaw was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Stanislaw | 870 | 5 |
In 2025, Stanislaw was given 2 times or more in 17 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Stanisław | 9 | 233 |
| Dolnośląskie | Stanislaw | 243 | 2 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Stanisław | 8 | 176 |
| Lubelskie | Stanisław | 9 | 170 |
| Lubuskie | Stanisław | 9 | 75 |
| Łódzkie | Stanisław | 9 | 214 |
| Małopolskie | Stanisław | 9 | 375 |
| Mazowieckie | Stanisław | 8 | 728 |
| Opolskie | Stanisław | 10 | 63 |
| Podkarpackie | Stanisław | 16 | 148 |
| Podlaskie | Stanisław | 13 | 94 |
| Pomorskie | Stanisław | 8 | 253 |
| Śląskie | Stanisław | 12 | 299 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Stanisław | 11 | 82 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Stanisław | 10 | 101 |
| Wielkopolskie | Stanisław | 8 | 435 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Stanisław | 10 | 108 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Stanislaw among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Stanislaw | 8 | 27 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Stanislaw against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.