Weird names Polish parents give to their kids

Polish parents give their lovely children weird, crazy and funny names.

Grzmisława, Żaklina and Bobek are only a few of way too many examples.

What was the weirdest name you came across in Poland?

Gniewomir

As a foreigner in Poland, I always thought it was odd that Asia (not the continent) was short for Joanna.
And I once made the horrendous mistake of calling out Barabara for Barbra, (when I first arrived in my best Polish accent) during role call.

Maybe to you they are but a parent can name their child whatever they want.

In Poland?

Well, a diminutive to Joanna is Joasia. And short for Joasia is Asia. The continent though, in Polish it is called Azja. It is also a name. But not very popular one. Azja Tuhajbejowicz... a popular anti-hero.

Good theres way to many Agnes's, kasia's magda's, Jaceks and pawels.

Tradycja

My grandfather offered my dad 1,000 dollars to name me Hipolite after my great grandfather. My dad said "no way in hell".

It's simple: Joanna - Joasia - Asia

I always wondered why Russian name Alexander is shorted to Sasha. That is the real oddness! ;)

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Kostek, Roch, Kosma, Sława...

Sameligelimelion or it's a mistake in callendar.

If I was your dad, that would be your name(:

And you could call him Hipek.

Means also Olek

Alexander to Sasha? The pronouciation. Alexander is shortened to Sandy in Scotland. There's an invisible S between Alex and ander

I the name Władysława still given to girls in Poland? In the U.S. many women with that name have changed it to Lottie.

I must ask then, what is the explanation for Aleksandra-Ola??

Yeah, that's crazy, I don't get it why in Polish is Ola/Olek not Aleksa/Alek or even why not Sandra/Sander

Aleksandra - Ola (female)
Aleksander - Olek (male)


It's visible in Polish Aleksander

With most of them there is a tradition, history, heritage, things that we are proud of
US is particular must be the most retarded collection of 'made up' names that are directly related to brain farts

it is a historical one - in many Polish dialects of the past 'a' sounds in certain positions developed into o's

this is certainly evident in comparison of some Polish and Czech words

krowa - krava (cow)
głowa - hlava (head)
broda - brada (beard)

the forms with a's are evidenced to be historically older so Czech retained older forms inherited from 'Common Slavic' while Polish (and similarily Russian) have introduced o's in the place of some a's

in some Polish dialects the phenomenon continued for much longer historically and has much broader scope therefore- that's why standard Polish 'ptak' (a bird) is 'ptok' in Silesian and many other Polish southern dialects like that of Górale (which sounds Górole in their speech - Górale speech also has different way of accenting words - most get accented on the initial sylable) - standard Polish 'krowa' turns into 'krowo' in Silesian as a further example

the use of the name Aleksandra and Aleksander in Polish dates back to the times that a-> o sound alteration was still active in those dialects that influenced Polish literary language - however the name Alicja was adopted later and the short name developed was Ala - no further a->o sound alteration was active by then in the standard literary Polish (as far as I know more northern dialects overtook as those that were recognized as 'proper Polish')

Read this.

"A 3-year-old boy named Adolf Hitler and his two Nazi-named younger sisters..."

foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479904,00.html

For that money i'll name my first son Hipolite in honour of your great grandfather...:)


have they got their kids back yet?
its sinister that people name their kids after famous nazis but its also sinister that without investigation beyond shock at the names those kids can be removed by the local authorities and put in care....maybe its the best place for them,maybe their parents just need a bit of "guidence" ....oh,and a quick look in the mirror,if they are the master race Im a 6.7 kenyan.......

I think that's the whole point. They’re irresponsible and potentially damaging to their kids. We don't need people like that raising our new generation.

As a kid, can you imagine going through life named after dictator and mass murderer? The line has to be drawn.

Lenin and Stalin were popular first names given to children born to some politically driven people in Latin America some time ago (I guess it was 40's and 50's)

An interesting point, so do you think those parents should have their kids back and everyone should go about their business as usual?

Would you want your kids to go to school with little Adolph and Aryan knowing they were being raised by those two?

I haven't mentioned those little Lenins and Stalins to suggest anything involving the fate of that poor Adolph Hitler kid - I would be very much for giving the parents a lecture on how they have adversely affected the lives of their children calling them such names - I don't know if it be somehow legally regulated

those wouldn't be names given in Poland... it'd be Adolf...
Poles used to give nice traditional names to their kids, until they got crazy and name daughters Andżelika and Dżoana...
but still Poles don't beat one of American names Apple, for ex.
:D

for shame,thats half English .....if your on about gwinnie and chris' sprog :)

It was originally from James/Jacques.