East European girl's names

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I think I've decided on the name for our DD (due in July), but part of me thinks it would be nice to go for a Polish or Ukranian name (as that's where my maternal grandparents are from). Does anyone have any nice suggestions? We are using Maria as a middle name.

Celina
Ela
Irena
Kazia
....googled these polish names but they sound pretty

www.nameberry.com has a function that lets you search for names by origin (including Polish and Ukranian). I think Theadora and Sofiya are both pretty; they are both Polish/Ukranian variations of other names which might be a way to include an Eastern European name?

How about another M name for a bit of discreet alliteration?

Maia
Margarita
Matylda

Veronika
Renata
Ewalina

Polish:
Aniela
Anna
Florentyna
Jolanta
Zefiryn/Zepherine

Ukrainian:
Elena
Alyona
Galina
Halyna (both Polish and Ukrainian)
Lara/ Larissa
Lavra
Nadezhda
Natalia
Pavla
Raisa
Tamara
Tatiana
Valentina
Evgenia/ Yevgenia/ Eugenia
Zinaida

Adela
Alina
Anastazja
Aneta/Anita
Beata
Blanka
Cecylia
Dagmara
Danuta
Daria
Edyta
Elena
Emilia
Grazyna
Halina
Helena
Ida
Iga
Ilona
Irena
Iwona
Iza
Jagoda (means blueberry)
Kalina
Kinga
Lidia
Lucyna
Ludmila
Lucja
Magda
Malwina
Marta
Milena
Natasza
Ol ga
Otylia
Roza
Wanda

Most of those are typically Polish-even though a lot with roots in Latin etc.. There's also plenty of names similar to the English ones ie- Rozalia, Sylwia, Zofia, Liliana, Dominika,Klara, Klaudia, Klementyna, Weronika etc

Jana (pronounced yana)
Beata

More Polish :

Violetta
Julia
Zuzanna
Karolina
Paulina
Agata
Amelia
Justyna
Izabella
Magdalena
Joann a
Milena
Eva
Martyna
Alicja
Hanna
Daniela
Monika
Patrycja
Roksana
Marlena
Aleksandra
Leo kadia ( Lola for short, my grandmother's name ! )

Notice that literally all Polish girl names finish in a !
Recently, though, I noticed people start to come up with names like Nell and Nicole ...

Should be Joanna, Leokadia

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Yaryna is a good name.

My name is on this thread too!

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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)

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

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

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.

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Doh.

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

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...

winny , how is she ?

Evangelina

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

Shortens nicely to Eve