Uncommon Polish Girl Names

Polish formal names and familiar short forms offer quite different sounds and lengths. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.

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

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1917.

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

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1888.

92#2,056
Up 515 rank positions in five years
1957

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1942.

18#6,477
Down 2,241 rank positions in five years
1990

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1943.

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

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1917.

177#1,267
Up 359 rank positions in five years
2007

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1965.

47#3,296
Down 880 rank positions in five years
2008

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1887.

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

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1880.

24#5,304
Down 914 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1886.

—Unranked
—
1964

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1882.

—Unranked
—
1918

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1895.

—Unranked
—
1920

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1994.

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

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1974.

6#14,039
Down 2,441 rank positions in five years
1997

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1989.

10#9,735
Up 104 rank positions in five years
2004

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1955.

18#6,447
Down 238 rank positions in five years
2016

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1920.

12#8,375
Down 1,743 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1920.

—Unranked
—
1987

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1982.

5#16,102
new
1987

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1989.

—Unranked
—
2009

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1911.

6#14,349
Down 5,579 rank positions in five years
2020

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1961.

—Unranked
—
1977

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 1970.

—Unranked
—
1972

Recorded in Polish as Bożena; in U.S. records from 1926.

—Unranked
—
1968

Recorded in Polish; in U.S. records from 2006.

—Unranked
—
2006

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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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