Life / Weird names Polish parents give to their kids [43]

Some of polish names are beautiful, but today a lot of them are unused. As I child I named my barbie doll "Józefina" and everybody from my family was suprised. In the same time, names like "Pamela" are rare. Parents give their children common names, like Martha (in Polish: Marta), Katherine (Katarzyna, Kasia), Jacek, Klaudia, Sandra, Dominika. Roman names are popular, but Slavic names are weird, even for Pole.

Good example is "Bożydar". It means "a God's gift". Meaning is beautiful, but that name is really rare and it sounds just funny.

Diminutives like Zdzisiu (full form: Zdzisław) or Rysiu (Ryszard) are also funny.

Law / Which is the best city in Poland to open a kebab shop? [56]

Opening a kebab shop in big city is bad idea. I have been in Wroclaw and I have seen a lot of kebab shops. I live in small city nearby Germany and we have 2 kebab shop - the first one is in a center of city, the second is in suburbia. I don't know a lot about the second one, but the first has a lot of clients. It's placed next to popular market and thank to it shop has more clients, I suppose :) Maybe kebab is some kind of fastfood, but fastfood is very popular among ordinary people.

I think the best city to open that kind of shop will be neither too small, nor too big city. Cities nearby polish mountains, for example Szklarska Poręba, are good. These are touristic cities, they are medium-sized, but there's always crowds of people.

And kebab for 7-10 zlotych? It isn't too... cheap? In Wroclaw kebab costs more than 13 zlotych. In my city doner kebab (my favourite) costs 14-15.

Life / Weird names Polish parents give to their kids [43]

I don't hate Slavic names. I mean, some of them become rarer and today if people hear Tomisława, Wacława or Zbigniewa they think about old people, not young ones. Slavic male names are used more often, but they are also rare. If name is rare, for young generation it becomes weird.


No, but I would like to meet Octavia. But seriously: Roman names are in use. I'm Klaudia, 27 place on your list. On your list, Roman names are Antoni, Julia, Wiktoria. There are a lot of Latin and Greek names too.


If I was Zdzisław I wouldn't want to be named Zdzisiu. Zdzisiek is far better. I's my opinion. Please - don't try insult me. Attack my opinion, not me. And being in middle class isn't nothing bad.


It's statistic. In Southern Poland some name might be in use more often than in Northern Poland. I was very suprised, when I saw on your list name Oliwier. I know one Oliwier and he and his surroundings have thought it's rare name.

Sorry for little off-topic.

Life / Weird names Polish parents give to their kids [43]

Thanks God, there aren't really weird names in Poland. None of the parents would like to have child called, for example, Słoik (Jar). But, according to this site:

rjp.pan.pl/index.php?option=com_content&id=1132&Itemid=58
you can name your child Syntia or Lotar. Or even Klaudian, although the better known form is Klaudiusz.

At the bottom of this website are names, which Polish child rather cannot have. There are names like Tea or Wolf... or even Pacyfik... It means, someone from Poland wanted to name his/her child like that...