i think łukasz would be lucas in english, i like that name too its not to common but just common enough people dont think its weird
she even got a sentence in Polish in one of the latest shows
awesome! i looked at her acting page thing & it said she was also a polish maid in 2 episodes of the sopranos & shes the lead in some movie comming out :)
Im from the USA and my family has a Polish background. I was wondering if there were Polish versions of the names James and Joseph. Those are my first and middle names. I also found out that my last name means 'sour' in Polish...which I think is kind of funny.
Dina Girls : Adrianna (Ada) , Aleksandra (Ola) (very popular) , Alicja-in English Alicia , Alina , Anastazja , Aneta , Anita , Anna (Ania) (very popular) , Balbina , Barbara (Basia) , Beata (popular) , Cecylia , Celina , Danuta (Danusia) , Diana-in English too , Dominika (popular) , Dorota , Edyta , Eliza , Elżbieta (Ela) , Emilia-in English Emily , Ewa-in English Eva , Ewelina , Florentyna-(Flora) , Grażyna , Halina , Helena , Ida , Iga , Ilona , Irena , Iwona , Ingrid , Jagoda-in English-berry , Joanna (Asia) in English too , Jolanta (Jola) , Justyna , Kamila-in English Camilla , Karolina (my name :D) , Katarzyna (Kasia) (very popular) in English-Katy,Kate , Krystyna , Laura , £ucja..........
Boys: Maciej (Maciek) (popular) , Marcin (very popular) , Marek-in English Mark , Mariusz , Mateusz-In English Matt , Michał (very popular)-in English Michael , Mikołaj , Napoleon , Norbert , Olaf , Patryk-in English Patrick , Paweł (very popular) , Piotr (Piotrek)-in English Peter , Radosław (Radek) , Robert-in English too , Roland , Ryszard (Ryś) , Sebastian , Sławomir (Sławek) , Tadeusz (Tadek) , Tomasz (Tomek) (very popular) , Wiktor-in English Victor , Włodzimierz (Włodek) , Wojciech (Wojtek) , Zbigniew (Zbyszek)..........
Thread attached on merging: Popular first names in Poland?
What are the most popular first names given to Polish babies these days? Gazeta Wybiórcza used to run a page of newly born infants and the names they were given. Maybe they still do.
Is this fad and trend-propelled in Poland? In other words are the names of celebnities most preferred? In the US we have gone through the Tracy, Stacy, Macy, Lacy, Dacy, Shmacy (just joking) fad for girls. In Poland there was Violetta way back and Isaura in the '80s.
Why are the proud and beautiful old names Czesław, Bolesław, Władysław, Zdzisław, Bogdan and others in disfavour? Why have Stanisław and Jan been making a comeback, but not Józef and Franciszek? Because they are bumpkinish? Can there be any more 'burak' names than Kuba, Maciek and Bartek? Those are names of peasants found in rustic folk songs.
Kasia asked Asia, should I call my baby Basia? 'Basia?' asked Asia, why not 'Sasha?' she replied to Kasia. 'Sasha nie jest nasza', Asia, replied Kasia.
I'd say Asia, Kasia, Agnieszka and Ania are popular.
Funny that I also consider such names like: Maja, Zuzia, Oliwka, Julia, Gabriela as beatiful names and I would like to call that my baby girl if I ever have a child. A boy I'd like to call Jakub or Szymon.
pgtx are "old school" baby names still popular in Poland?
Zofia is a very common name. Other popular names, a bit more original? Lena, Pola, Daria, Dominika, Maja, Marta, Samanta, Oliwia, Paulina, Patrycja, Sara, Michalina, Helena, Katarzyna. What's your real name Pgtx? I'm Magdalena and I don't like it very much, because it's popular.
I'm in my 20s and there was no class during my educational path without 2-4 Martas and Kasias in one class. You can't name daughter after mother, that's the reason!
I used to teach English in Poland, and if at the end of a long, hard day I needed to nominate students to speak, but was too tired to remember all their names, I'd just say Agnieszka and someone would answer. Worked every time.
Also, I just counted 17 Tomeks and 9 Andrzejs in the contact list in my cellphone
I used to be a teacher too. After a hard day with a horrible students called by me monsters, before felling asleep, I was repeating my pupils names like mantra or my own lullaby before next day...
Pola, Zuzia, Alicja, Marek, Hubert, Szymon, Tomek, Karol etc. Good times of my life...
ZBIGNIEW: from roots zbyć (get rid of) and gniew (anger). Zbygniew was seen in old chronicles as early as AD 1097, but due to a misreading and miscopying in the 16th century it got respelled Zbigniew. Regardless of what the initial etymology of a first name was, today they are merely names with no special significance.
what is most popular Slavic sounding Polish first name?
Thanks in advance for info
No idea, but Polish Slavic names usually end with "-sław". For example, Polish president - Bronisław Komorowski, the Minister of Foreign Affairs - Radosław Sikorski, and there's of course Jarosław Kaczyński.
Polish Slavic names end also with "-mir" and "-mił": Sławomir, Bogumił. There are also names like Zbigniew, Bogdan, etc.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_names
My guess would be that most popular are Stanisław, Przemysław, Zbigniew, Kazimierz, Władysław, etc.
Piotr is same like Peter, Petar is Serbian version, it's origin is Greek, meaning like a rock, it's just common christian name, I think Crow was looking for something genuine/common Slavic, like Svetislav, Ratomir, Branislav, Svetlana, Vidoslav - Polish equivalents of those names.
For example Zbigniew, who's etymology Polonius was explaining has word gniew (anger), in Serbian it's gnev, those kind of names I guess he is looking for.
