Will Polish names eventually become popular in the UK?

They'll probably become popular on certain housing estates, cos it's continental innit....and there's only so many Chardonnays you can have in one family

They'll be spelt wrong and mispronounced beyond recognition

lol,me mums black labrador is called keysha :)
mmmmmmmm kasha with honeymmmmmmmmm

"meet my litle baby Zubrowka..." :)

sorry , "baby Zoobrofker....."

Can you imagine english girls called Miroslava or Dobromila?

not really .. but then again i like to be different which is why my own daughters name is british and is mispronounced

i was actually going to havea double barrelled name with Angelika the second part of when i was born ..

This is a good point and would be a shame if it did happen that way.

Yes it's true that this could be a problem.

There are some very nice Polish names that I would not like to hear distorted. I think as a personal choice I would give my child a Polish name.



Not really but that's the point.


Angelika is one name I would consider. Of course, perhaps this is because it's fairly close to an English name.

Both my first name and my middle are not British and both get mispronounced. My middle name I can understand but not my first.

this is not really the same thing at all. We are talking about would Polish names become popular among the English in England because of the influx of Poles. You are talking about the angloisation of your name among other people because of language difficulties. We had a Pole at work and his name was Andrzej but everybody called him Andrew. I always knew him as 'that Pole'.

I meant Britain more than specifically England. There are other regions of Britain I think would take to Polish names more than England would.



I think it's relevant to the thread. As part of the discussion is about how names get mispronounced.



So we should wonder what he knew you as...

Will Polish names eventually become popular in the UK?
I hope so - some are so nice! Especially Grzegorz and Mateusz :D

Polish names are nice, but then I'm quite biased lol.........

No, we have had asians here for many years do you see English people calling their kids Mohammed? or Azia?



It is an English name, only we use a C

Actually, it isn't.
The name comes from Latin angelicus

maybe not, but i read somewhere that if all the different spellings of Mohammed are taken into account, it's the second most popular boy's name given in England last year !

Not many but there are some. As Polanglik says above, Mohammad became a popular boys name last year and not just among the Asian or Muslim communities.



Angelika in Polish tends to be pronounced Angeleeka and it's not an English name, I thought it came from Greek, z_darius says Latin.

Z-darius is right, it's Latin in origin

you show me one English person who name their kid mohammed and I will walk down Market Street in Manchester naked tonight after work!

Although Polish names can be beautiful, i'm more than happy with good old english/british names, no offense to Poland but where loosing some of our country and not having and davids, Johns and Terry's would be a nightmare :)

I like the name Agnieszka but I think the name Agnes is hideous

Not many ethnic English couple would ever name their children with an obviously Polish name (in the Polish form anyway)...just as is the case in most cultures.

Have you ever met an Cuban Agnieszka or a Japanese Wladeslaw?

My fave Polish name which i will name my son (when i eventually have children) is 'Symche', it was a name of a character in The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman. I presume its the Polish version of the Hebrew name 'Simcha'.


Oh and i'm English. :)

This must be an uncommon name in Poland, I don't think I know of anyone with that name. At least he won't be referred to as 'Symche H.' (or whatever letter). He'll definitely stand out.

That's true!!

Well i have only ever seen the name in The Pianist, i guess if there were more Jews left in Poland it might have been more popular....

:)

Im still not convinced about the name Mohammed..you would never never get a white british kid with this name unless his parents were some crazy muslim converts...and to be honest a lot of Polish names (mens) can be broken down to English

Marek - Mark
Lukasz - Luke
Doggie - Greg


Im sure there are a lot more....Im quite happy with English/Scotish/Irish names to be honest, there is plenty of choice....but Im pretty old fashioned in that respect...like Daisy said its usually those of council estates that are looking for something "exotic" for their kid....

I'm English but I want to name my children Leon and Kasia. I'm sure their mother (whoever she may be) will have something to say about it though.

I don't know if Leon is particularly Polish but it is a family name derived from my Great Grandfather who was a Polish Jew.

I'm sure there are many Polish men/women who will marry and have children with English men/women and so, given time, i'm sure Polish names will become more commonplace in England and the UK.