Weird names Polish parents give to their kids

there are plenty of parents who would rather keep to traditional names instead of Nikolas, Paulas, Kewins and the like

i hope so!

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.

I never met or read about any Poles named Saturnina, Octavia, Caius or Brutus. Have you?


If you think Slavic forenames are "weird" then you must really detest Slavic surnames.


You sound like someone who is very eager to join the middle class.

Several Sabinas and tons of Mariuszes.

According to the last official published statistics the names you mentioned weren't even listed as being popular in Poland:

msw.gov.pl/pl/dowody-i-paszporty/ewidencja-ludnosci-dow/najczesciej-nadawane-i/3057,Najpopularniejsze-imiona-i-nazwiska-w-Polsce-w-2009-roku.html

Social trends change but rarely do these happen rapidly. So it wouldn't make sense that name preferences would have changed significantly leading up to or after this snapshot was taken.

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.

I know one - Polonised to Oktawia.

Nonsense. That list was for babies born in 2009.

There are hundreds of thousands of people here called Mariusz.

But since it's real life Poland rather than the internet, I doubt you'd know what's what.

Quite a few Adrians, Damians and Julias too, but Mariusz is an especially common name.

I remember Louis CK saying how wrong that is. You can call you kid anything. 'FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, clean your room.'

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...

Donald may still sound funny. Elderly people can associate it with imported bubble gum available in communist times. It cost 5 zlotys while a newspaper or urban transport ticket - 1 zloty.

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