Polish equivalent of "Jessie"?

Jessie is known in Poland. However, I remember being surprised to hear "Jared" for the first time in the film Night at the Museum 15 years ago. It sounded very strange.

The equivalent of Jared could be Jarek from Jarosław.

My Mother's birth name was Czesława and they called her Tessie. She was born in US, Lived in Poland from the age of 6-16 and then came back to the US. That was what she was known as her entire life.

I would never think Tessi comes from Czesława. Was it too difficult to utter her name as Czessi - "cz" pronounced like "ch" in chair?

My dad's name is Zdzisław and I've never heard neither him nor any relatives and friends in Poland use Jesse as a nickname for Zdzislaw, that sounds really weird and wrong in my ears. Same goes for Jessie as a nickname for Zdzisława. But I'm not American so I can't say anything about how Americans use these nicknames. Jessie as an American nickname for Czesława sounds right in my ears though. Seems like this is op's conclusion as well!

It's hard to imagine many Americans pronouncing Zdzisiek easiiy.

They have enough trouble with schedule, tomato and patent.

Czesława, Mieczysława

@jon357.

I struggle with it myself and it's his first name😅 My dad goes by Zdzisław, Zdzisiek or Zdisio both here in my birthcountry and in Poland.

The first name Zdzisław seems a bit old fashioned today. I haven`t had a student with that name for ..... hmm, about 15 years.

Zdzisław is a very fine and distinguished name with many notable Poles bearing it.

At least your father wasn't saddled with something stale and cringey like Szymon or Jakub.

My father`s name was Mojsze. How does it translate into English?

Usually Moishe....

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Moishe

Moldy!

No, you don`t know Polish reality at all.
It was, probably decades ago. Now it sounds funny, especially in dimunitive form: Zdzichu. Reminds of characters from jokes about country boys.. My wife`s aunt or another relative, about 80 now, is called Zdzisława and whenever I hear they talk about Zdzicha, I smile.

@mafketis
Thanks.

@Poloniusz
Błee, you are disgusting.

Jokes no doubt written and told by Polish haters with names like Mojsze, Szymon, and Jakub.

Of course not. My father loved Poland and never wanted to leave, even during the worst times, with pogrom-like atmosphere, in 1968.

Żużana

My maternal grandmother was born in Memel (now Klaipedia) on the Baltic Sea. It was a German town when she was bortn, then Polish, then German again, then Lithuanian. In Canada, our family always called her Jessie. When she passed away I saw her birth certificate from the old country and it said Czesława (all accent punctuation omitted). My research, which always ignores Wikipedia entries as they are highly inaccurate without references, indicates the name originated in the Baltic-Slavic language.

@tiamatgreen
My great-aunt's given name was Czesława, nicknamed Czesia, and when they immigrated to the States, her name was Anglicised to Jessie. She was known for the rest of her life legally as Jessie. So yes, some families translate that way.