Polish Names

Polish formal names and familiar short forms offer quite different sounds and lengths. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

20#6,095
Up 519 rank positions in five years
1957

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1917.

5#17,059
Down 2,112 rank positions in five years
1970

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1943.

23#5,478
Up 82 rank positions in five years
1993

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1965.

708#445
Up 3 rank positions in five years
2022

Polish-rooted name; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1894.

73#2,039
Up 1,620 rank positions in five years
1919

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970.

25#4,192
Up 1,934 rank positions in five years
1998

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972.

41#3,015
Down 863 rank positions in five years
2011

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1887.

7#13,023
Down 1,015 rank positions in five years
1916

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

5#13,138
new
1959

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1958.

23#5,480
Down 245 rank positions in five years
2002

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1886.

—Unranked
—
1964

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1952.

—Unranked
—
1990

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983.

20#4,968
Down 1,509 rank positions in five years
2009

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1882.

—Unranked
—
1918

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

43#2,934
Down 749 rank positions in five years
2012

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994.

11#7,408
Down 163 rank positions in five years
2007

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1913.

36#3,984
Up 103 rank positions in five years
2010

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1915.

33#4,292
Up 3,405 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

6#11,070
Down 5,284 rank positions in five years
2001

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989.

—Unranked
—
2009

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1895.

—Unranked
—
1920

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994.

83#2,222
Up 643 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1969.

5#13,703
Down 6,255 rank positions in five years
1995

Recorded in Polish; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1981.

23#4,483
Up 1,381 rank positions in five years
2007

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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