Girls names that work in British and Polish

[DC2018]

We have settled on a boys name we love but are struggling to think of a girl's name.
I like Rosalie, Meredith and Orlaith but OH says they will be lost on his polish family. We both really like Violet but I don't love it.

Viola, but Wiola is pronounced Vee-oh-la.
Marta, Maria, Anna, Rosa, Cara etc would work.

Alicia
Monika
Hanna
Karolina
Natalia
Amanda
Sara
Julia
Emilia

...just had to end in an 'a'

Oh Natalia is nice!

I didn't have a clue but thought I'd nose at what people said and that jumped out.

Barbara
Elizabeth - I think I've come across that.

Sylvie, Silvia?

Ania

Matilda
Eva

My (polish) friend has a little girl called Hania and I absolutely adore it!

Off the top of my head, in my school we’ve had
Anastasia
Katrina
Agata
Marta (Martha)
Elisabeth
Anna
Anya
Maria
All polish children whose names work in both

Magda
Abigail
Hannah
Anya
Nina

Lena
Hanna
Angelina
Nadia
Liliana
Gabriela
Anna
Laura
Kasandra
Celina
Emily
Marlena
Ada
Victoria
Nina
Agnes
Sabina
Sonia
Alice
Diana
Natalia
Karina
Monika
Sara
Joanna
Aurelia
Olivia
Eliza
Vanessa
Jessica
Claudia

Sonia
Sophia

Martha
Isabella
Claudia
Sophia
Amelie
Lydia
Olivia
Matilda
Serena
Verity
Aurelie
Cecelia
Alexia
Eleanor
Lillian
Eva

My DD2 will have Marysia as a middle name after her Polish grandmother. Or how about
Marta
Lena
Natalia
Laura
Magdalena
Anna
Helena

Eva.

I live in Poland with my Polish husband so we have had this discussion a few times! Some names used in Poland that are more or less the same in English are;

Anna
Hanna
Emilia
Marta
Aneta
Gabriela
Eliza (el -EE-za)
Lilianna
Ada
Daria
Adela
Matylda
Apolonia
Klara
Anita
Magda/ Magdalena
Natalia
Sara
Nina

There are many more that are similar to British names but have differences in spelling or pronunciation such as Julia (starts with a y sound), Klaudia (like cloud), Maria (stress on the first sylable), Oliwia, Wiktoria, Izabela, Patrycja and Alicja. In most of these cases I am pretty sure the Poles could cope with the British version of those names.

P.S. All Polish female names end in "a". My (always female) British name does not and am constantly being mistaken for a man. I am not sure if that is important to you but I thought I should let you know!

Rosalie in Polish is Rozalia (Roz AHL ee ya).

Katia or Katie
short for
Katerina/Katarina or Katheryn/Katharine

Kasia

Justina? (Softer J in Polish)

I’ve taught polish girls called Alicja (she’s in the register as Alicia), Emilia, Magda, Julia & Wiktoria.

Long as it ends in an A, it will work.

So Joanna, Olivia, Patricia, Anna etc

Barbara, Helena

I have a friend known as Ola but her actual name is Alexandra

I thought in Poland year ago and there were loads of Alexandras known as Ola!

Thanks everyone for the suggestions so far. Read a few to my OH who liked a couple. I really like Alexandra but that is my niece's middle name so not sure I could use it? OH still loves Violet best x