Polish Name Generator

Polish names follow rules that most generators ignore. Surnames ending in -ski, -cki, and -dzki are adjectives and change with gender: a man is Kowalski, Nowicki, or Zawadzki, while his wife or daughter is Kowalska, Nowicka, or Zawadzka. Surnames that are nouns (Nowak, Wójcik, Mazur, Król, Wróbel) stay the same for everyone. About a third of Poles carry a -ski-type surname, originally marking a family's estate or village, and the top ten surnames in Poland today are Nowak, Kowalski, Wiśniewski, Wójcik, Kowalczyk, Kamiński, Lewandowski, Zieliński, Szymański, and Woźniak.

Given names come from three streams. Old Slavic compound names like Wojciech (warrior of joy), Stanisław (become glorious), Bogumił, and Kazimierz remain common, especially in older generations. Catholic saint names dominate the middle: Jan, Piotr, Andrzej, Anna, Maria, Katarzyna, Agnieszka. Since 2000 the most popular baby names have shifted toward short international forms such as Zuzanna, Julia, Maja, Antoni, Jan, and Aleksander. Nearly all Polish female names end in -a; the notable exceptions are foreign borrowings.

The list pairs each first name with a surname of the correct gender and mixes generations, so you can pull a plausible grandmother (Genowefa Kołodziej), a 1980s office worker (Grzegorz Wojciechowski), or a child born last year (Pola Kwiatkowska). Keep the diacritics: Łukasz, Małgorzata, and Wiśniewski are not spelled correctly without them.