East European girl's names

Kushla or Cushla

U pronounced as a German U, not as an A
(hope that makes sense)

Love Anya and Anoushka

That must have been sooo scary for you , winny !
Very glad no harm done. Think positive - hopefully, your DP will be much much careful in the future.

I always struggle to relax re my DH and hot drinks , is he always super careful where he places them with DS around ?
Men, most of them, are simply not as hardwired about child safety as we are. Of course, in their defence, they do not spend hours on mumsnet, reading all the parent panic threads,swallowed balloons etc, learning from others experiences, ...
I said most men , as my BIL is like a mother hen to his two boys, honestly, wouldn't let them play for five minutes unsupervised in the next room. And they are 5 and 8 !

Winny, I'm a western girl, so for us it is always Swinoujscie, Miedzyzdroje, Dziwnow etc
And I LOVE Kolobrzeg. My middle DS actually vows to move over there when adult.
We all love Polish seaside full stop. Well, when the sun shines, that is.

Yes, OP, please pardon the momentary hijack.

Oooh, there are some nice ones on your list Daisy.

She's fine, but had a moment of panic, called the poison control (for the phosphorus) etc.
I only left her for 3 minutes while filling up the bath and she found some matches dp left laying about .

Sorry for hijack, OP, but Daisy, have you been at the seaside recently? Want to go for summer holidays, but haven't been for ages. Debki? Jurata?

Just had a quick look at the Polish calendar of name days and noticed some not mentioned yet.
So here goes...

Antonina
Antonia
Aurelia
Eleonora
Emanuela
Eliza
Felicja
Gabriela
Gloria
Karina
Klara
Lena
Lilia
Marianna
Marcelina
Mariola
Oktavia
Olivia
Krystyna
Sara
Serafina

Marta

Agata - my upstairs neighbour. She's lovely.

Evangelina

BEAUTIFUL. I knew a girl with this name (polish girl obv or would not be relevant post)

Shortens nicely to Eve

winny , how is she ?

winnybella, we actually call my grandma Danusia, but her official name is Daniela.
She celebrates her imieniny on 4th September.

Imieniny is a typically Polish custom.
It is basically a name day, celebrated, mostly by grown ups only, just as one would celebrate a birthday, with a party, presents, flowers etc

So, all the Marias, for example, would celebrate on the same day. A really popular name , like Anna, could actually generate queues at a flower shop...

Doh.

Had horrendous evening with dd eating matches and me freaking out etc, so that's why brain's slow

What did she say? It's deleted now.

Oh yes, that's a really popular one, Lovingmother

Thought of another Polish name - Adrianna
Good one as doesn't have a typically Polish troublesome spelling like many others.

Also, Viola is often used as short for Violetta but can also be used as a independent name.

I love Kasia (from Katarzyna), Alicja, Natalia, Ania and Elena.

There's also Dorota, which may not be on your list.

Agnieszka (hope the spelling is right). There is a nurse in the care home my Mum lives in who is Polish and has this name. She is really lovely. She shortens her name to Aga as she thinks many people may not be able to cope with her full name (especially if they are elderly/hard of hearing etc)

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Yaryna is a good name.

My name is on this thread too!

Ukrainian names with variants and nicknames :
Elena / Olena / Aliona
Olesya / Alesya / Lesya (can be nn of Alexandra)
Anna / Anya / Annushka / Aniuta / Niura
Tatyana / Tania / Taniusha
Natalia / Natasha / Natalka
Maria / Masha / Marysa / Mariyka
Ksenia (Xenia) / Ksiusha / Oksana
Yulia / Uliana / Ulia
Varvara / Varya
Arina / Arisha
Irina / Ira / Irochka / Irishka
Anastasia / Nastia / Asia [pronounced Ah-sia)
Daria / Dasha / Dashenka
Galina / Halyna / Galia / Galka / Galochka
Polina / Polia / Poliushka / Polinka
Olga / Olya / Olenka / Olushka

A lot of names on my list are not my favourites, but they are more Polish/old-fashioned than others ie Amelia for Amelie etc.
And I like Daniela, just never heard of or met a Polish person with this name.

Of course, a lot of the names on both mine and winnybella's list are not Polish as such but stil used/popular in Poland.

My own name is included in my list and it is not Polish at all in origin but still, the only women in UK with this name I ever hear of always turn out to be Polish.

Guess what, this is the name of my other fraternal grandmother and she is Polish through and through.

The first one you mention, Adela, was the name of my maternal great grandmother. But she was German.

Oops, so much personal info. I will probably stop at grannies' names

Daniela, Daisy? Really?! Am out of touch with my native land, perhaps

Natalia is very popular in Poland as well (just noticed it in the Ukranian list above )

Should be Joanna, Leokadia