Talk:Polish names

message: Consider Nicolaus Copernicus, or more strictly Mikołaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus is a latinized form; latinized forms were common during Middle Ages and Renaissance).
He was not a nobleman - he was a townsman; neverthless, he had a family name. Kopernik was surely his family name and not a nickname (as he inherited this, so did his father), and it was a Polish family name (Copernicus' father was Polish).
:I believe that everyone had surnames in Poland, but the noblemen had surnamed ending in '...ski' --Iamcon 01:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Are you sure that in Poland in XV century only nobles had surnames?

message: Is `Wojciech' really a Slavic name?
:Yes, the Polish Wikipedia says it literally means "glad to be a warrior". The Polish name Wojciech probably comes for the Czech Vojtěch, but both languages are of course Slavic. – Kpalion (talk) 11:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wojciech?

message: Part oabout name'sday and birthday is very East Poland POV. In Western part of country (Greater Poland, Upper Silesia) birthday were more popular than name's day at least since 19th century. Radomil talk 18:16, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthday

message: I live in western Poland and namesday are more often celebrated than birthdays. I think that that is the same in whole Poland so you should changed it.
It depends what do Tou mean "western Poland". In Greater Poland (or more correctly in ex- Grand Duchy of Poznań), Upper Silesia and Eastern Pommerania Birthday's are much more popular. Radomil talk 12:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  namedays 

message: Is really putting one's surname first considered incorrect? I guess that whenever an emphasis is on surname it is ok to use this form. An example would be going through an alphabetically ordered list of people or similar. Or it might be just that I'm not using my own language properly ;) Kelner (talk) 22:26, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First name surname vs. Surname first name 

message: In my (Polish) family, there is a pattern of using the father's first name as the son's middle name. Growing up, I was given the impression that this is common, but nothing of this sort is mentioned in the article. Can someone help clear this up? 
If this is just a weird custom in my family, well, then I guess it would be of only personal interest. But if this was once more common, perhaps it merits mentioning? If so, has it fallen out of favor? (Maybe the Russian system of patronymics is relevant... It seems plausible that people might have wanted to avoid continuing any custom that is reminiscent of a Russian one. That would be an interesting anthropological tidbit, if it were true...)
MJM74 (talk) 05:28, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I live in Poland and have never heard of such a custom being widespread in this country, so it's most probably only a family tradition. — Kpalion(talk) 13:46, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patronymic Middle Names 

message: The paragraph about distinction between the "friends" and "colleagues" needs to be changed. Author clearly made a quite common mistake comparing English 'colleague' to Polish 'kolega'. The correct translations:
# 'przyjaciel' = 'close friend',
# 'kolega' = 'friend',
# 'współpracownik' (or 'kolega z pracy') = 'colleague'.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.87.7 (talk) 23:23, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  colleague ≠ kolega 

message: The article says that, as of 2009, the three most common Polish first names for males are Piotr, Krzysztof, and Andrzej while, for females, they are Anna, Maria, and Katarzyna. However, the PDF file in the citation, dated 2009, gives a completely different set of names: Jakub, Kacper, and Szymon for males and Julia, Maja, and Zuzanna for females. According to the PDF, Piotr is the 9th most common male name, Krzysztof is 24th, and Andrzej is out of the most common 50, while Anna is the 14th most common female name, Maria is 21st, and Katarzyna is 32nd. While a ranking update based on more current information would be nice, there is still a glaring error either way. 69.171.160.42 (talk) 03:48, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article and source mismatch 

message: What is the origin of the surname Kanemski (f. Kanemska)? 95.111.106.220 (talk) 12:24, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: =Kanemski

message: Sectioning is sloppy: the order and the level of subsections sometimes illogical. I fixed one, but see more. I have no time now. -M.Altenmann >t 17:08, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sectioning 

message: Please join the discussion in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Heraldry and vexillology#Polish heraldry and genealogy about how to correctly handle historical Polish concepts  "ród",  "ród herbowy" vs. "House" & "Clan", etc. Staszek Lem (talk) 18:16, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polish heraldry and genealogy discussion 

message: This article is a little confusing, probably as a typical example of having a lot of editors adding bits and pieces and not having an editor who keeps it together as one coherent work. But my question is that if men and women have the different ending of names, does that mean that female children don't inherit their father's surname? In other words, if Mr. Kowalski has a daughter, her last name (on her birth certificate) would not be Kowalski, but something like Kowalska? How likely would it be for an adult woman to have a last name ending in "ski"? __209.179.36.56 (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Kowalski and Kowalska are the same surname, just with different gender suffixes. If Kowalski has a daughter, the name on her birth certificate (and everywhere else) is Kowalska. No woman has a name that ends with -ski, and no man has a name that ends with -ska. Amnadya (talk) 22:18, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  A question about inheriting surnames 

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