Cross Cultural Problems

[OlaWood1]

Hi,

I am 10 weeks in, and my husband and I have started to think about names. We want to find out the sex of the baby, and have the potential girls name sorted. The problem we have is with boys names. I am Polish, my husband is English, and we want a boys name that is easily usable (and ideally spelled the same) both in England and in Poland. Thomas / Tomas, Alexander / Aleksander, etc. I hope you get the idea!

Any thoughts and suggestions greatly appreciated!

OW1

Caspar? Stefan?

I love Tomas and Tomar

friends of mine have just had a Kris as well

ooh and congratulations btw

Congrats!

Don't know that much about Polish names but my cousin is half Polish and is called Dominik.

What about any of these too:
Pete
Lukas
Benedikt
Ivan?

Sorry Pete was supposed to be Peter

Henrik
Ludo

Andrew / Andrei
Bart

Rudi
Marek
Marius, Markus, Darius
Max?

By the way, I would change your Mumsnet talk nickname to something more anonymous (and silly) if I were you. We could all be weirdy stalkers.

Artur - Arthur
Andrzej - Andrew
Anton - Anton or Anthony
Albin - Albin
Dariusz - Darius
Dominik - Dominic
Iwo - Ivo
Jakub - Jacob
Jozef - Joseph
Kazimierz - Casimir
Marek - Mark
Roman - Roman
Stanislaw - Stanislaus or Stanley
Tymoteusz - Timothy
Tobiasz - Tobias
Tadeusz - Thaddeus

Congratulations! How about these, which need no change in spelling (although pronunciation will differ, of course):

Adam
Damian
Daniel
Fabian
Gabriel
Konrad
Leon
Robert
Sebastian
Stefan

HTH

I know a Polish family through DCs' school -- the boys are Adam, Adrian and Daniel.