Babies names - spelled similarly in Polish and English

Hi All, need some help, looking for babies names, which are spelt or sound the same in either English or Polish. For girls and boys.

Have a scroll through these lists:

20000-names.com/male_polish_names.htm
20000-names.com/female_polish_names.htm

Are congratulations in order?

Off the top of my head the following sound ok-ish ...

Anna
Helen
Adam
Robert
Alan
I've heard Gaia too (though suspect it started as Gaja)

julian
roger
karol

Janusz
Michał
Rajmund
Patrick

Kamila
Edward
Filip-Philip
Lucj-Lucy

with the "weird" English pronounciation and Polish spelling - no name sounds exactly the same :)
nevertheless some popular Polish names are similar to most European countries, I chose only some of those that don't have any special Polish letters in them, so there's no problem with spelling in England:

(remember that Polish "w" is like English "v" sound)

GIRLS

ANNA
MARIA
BARBARA
TERESA
MONIKA
ALEKSANDRA
MARTA
NATALIA

EWA (pronounced Eva)
ZOFIA
JOANNA
MAGDALENA
IRENA
HELENA
BEATA
DOROTA
KAROLINA
JUSTYNA
RENATA
ALICJA
PAULINA
SYLWIA
WANDA (pronounced Vandah, unlike the fish called Wanda)
AGATA
ANETA
IZABELA
EWELINA
PATRYCJA
EDYTA
KLAUDIA


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BOYS

TOMASZ
MARCIN
MAREK
ADAM
HENRYK
ROBERT
MATEUSZ
JACEK (pron.: yatsek)
KAMIL
ROMAN
JAKUB
ARTUR
EDWARD
DAMIAN
DAWID
SEBASTIAN
DANIEL

thanks guys

Can someone please tell me what English name Janusz pertains to? The others are easy, but I cant work it out.

Wow!

Thanks for all of this! My wife and I were having this exact discussion on Sunday! There are girl names listed here we didn't come up with. We want names for our child that would fit well between Polish and English too!

hi kman, thats what my wife and I are looking for also. And yes Londonchick, congrats are in order. :)

Little Johnny ;) i guess...

What about Kinga ?... Polish patron ;)

Jan would be John, Janeczek would be a young version of John; I don't think there's an English 'young' version of John ?
Janusz ....... not sure there is an English equivalent .... what would be the Polish equivalent of James ?

Jakub

thanks for this. This is my partners name and he told me it is the equivalent of Giovanni in Italy.. they dont sound much alike to me.. but hey.

Janusz is John.
Jan and Janusz is the same name.

thanks Krysia, I dont want to start calling him John though.. it doesnt have the same appeal to me somehow, might be easier for most English people to remember though as Polish names are often hard to pronounce.

Hi Krysia, You are correct when you say that Janusz is like John. It can also be Ian which is the Scottish version of John. My brother is Janusz and his Australian friends have not had any trouble calling him Janusz. He uses Ian sometimes but only very infrequently. Elzbieta.