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Popular Polish First Names?


Guest
28 Mar 2009 #91
£ukasz (Luc?)

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 :)
Olek S - | 13
31 Mar 2009 #92
My favourite name is Ewald (Evaldas).
LAGirl 9 | 496
1 Apr 2009 #93
carno85 your name is Jacek. thats my Polish friends name he is a nice guy its a nice name for a Polish guy.
Shirley DiChris
1 Apr 2009 #94
Robert isn't Polish

Malgorzata, Jadwiga, Janina
LAGirl 9 | 496
2 Apr 2009 #95
I like Jawiga thats pretty.
j.kwasny
16 Aug 2009 #96
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.
FredChopin - | 61
16 Aug 2009 #97
Joseph

JÓZEF

Don't think James equates, but somebody may know better.
beckski 12 | 1,617
16 Aug 2009 #98
JÓZEF

That's my daddy's middle name.
LAGirl 9 | 496
18 Aug 2009 #99
Józef is my friends middle name his first was Zbigniew but now its Joseph Zbigniew. what does Zbigniew means very interesting.
Leszka
4 Sep 2009 #100
Does anyone know the names for yesterday's ( September 3 ) name days?
lisia
15 Sep 2009 #101
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)..........
Polonius3 994 | 12,367
25 Jul 2010 #102
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.
Seanus 15 | 19,674
25 Jul 2010 #103
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.
zetigrek
25 Jul 2010 #104
Most popular names in first half of 2009:

Girls names

Julia - 7.678

Maja - 5.562

Zuzanna - 5.139

Wiktoria - 4.762

Oliwia - 4.213

Natalia - 3.755

Amelia - 3.676

Aleksandra - 3.419

Martyna - 2.597

Nikola - 2.543

Zofia - 2.471

Lena - 2.366

Weronika- 2.259

Anna - 2.110

Magdalena - 1.985

Emilia - 1.971

Karolina - 1.906

Gabriela - 1.850

Hanna - 1.809

Alicja - 1.570

Maria - 1.489

Boys names

Jakub - 7.297

Kacper - 5.247

Szymon - 4.410

Mateusz - 4.214

Filip - 3.976

Bartosz - 3.615

Michał - 3.452

Piotr - 2.669

Wiktor - 2.634

Dawid - 2.514

Maciej - 2.218

Igor - 2.124

Jan - 2.077

Patryk - 2.037

Paweł - 2.023

Adam - 1.969

Mikołaj - 1.891

Oskar - 1.855

Dominik - 1.815

Antoni - 1.761

Wojciech - 1.689

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.
Polonius3 994 | 12,367
25 Jul 2010 #105
Very interesting. Many dzięks!
pgtx 29 | 3,146
27 Oct 2010 #106
are "old school" baby names still popular in Poland? like Jan, Zofia, Wladyslaw, Jozef....etc...?

for example in the UK most popular name for a boy is Mohammed (?!), followed by Oliver; and for a girl - Olivia, Ruby, Chloe, Emily and Sophie....

are foreign names popular in Poland? like it used to be with Klaudia, Oliwia, etc....?
noreenb 7 | 557
27 Oct 2010 #107
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.
zetigrek
27 Oct 2010 #108
are "old school" baby names still popular in Poland? like Jan, Zofia, Wladyslaw, Jozef....etc...?

as you can see in my previous post answer is no.

Marta,

Katarzyna.

Those 2 are not original at all. Standard classic names, popular for years.
noreenb 7 | 557
27 Oct 2010 #109
Zetigrek
Those 2 are not original at all. Standard classic names, popular for years.

Sure, you're right. However not many little girls are called Kasia or Marta today.
zetigrek
27 Oct 2010 #110
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!
noreenb 7 | 557
27 Oct 2010 #111
zetigrek
You can't name daughter after mother, that's the reason!

Why?
I know Zosia who is a mother of a little Zosia.
Kasia, a mother of Kasia.
:)
I think it sounds nice.
jonni 16 | 2,482
27 Oct 2010 #112
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
noreenb 7 | 557
27 Oct 2010 #113
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...
Polonius3 994 | 12,367
27 Oct 2010 #114
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.
LAGirl 9 | 496
1 Nov 2010 #115
That is my boyfriend of over a year now that his name and it sure fits him becaus e he always acts very Gniew LOL.
Crow 155 | 9,025
1 Nov 2010 #116
what is most popular Slavic sounding Polish first name?

Thanks in advance for info
Seanus 15 | 19,674
2 Nov 2010 #117
Would it be Piotr, Crow? There is Pyotr in Russian and likely a Balkan equivalent, right?
Paulina 16 | 4,267
2 Nov 2010 #118
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.
Natasa 1 | 580
2 Nov 2010 #119
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.
Seanus 15 | 19,674
3 Nov 2010 #120
Svetislav is Bulgarian, I believe. Zbigniew too, yes


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