Popular baby names in Poland, 2024

Last year, the European country of Poland welcomed approximately 252,000 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Maja and Nikodem.

Here are Poland’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2024:

Girl names

1. Maja, 4,640 baby girls
   • Maja ranked fifth for girls in 2023.
2. Zofia, 4,470
3. Zuzanna, 4,144
4. Laura, 4,036
5. Hanna, 3,916
6. Julia, 3,482
7. Oliwia, 3,420
8. Pola, 3,166
9. Alicja, 3,131
10. Maria, 2,698
11. Antonina, 2,666
12. Emilia, 2563
13. Amelia, 2,550
14. Liliana, 2,417
15. Michalina, 2,375
16. Lena, 2,366
17. Iga, 2,349
18. Marcelina, 2,330
19. Klara, 2,323
20. Helena, 2,226 (tie)
21. Wiktoria, 2,226 (tie)
22. Lucja, 1,898
23. Gabriela, 1,825
24. Kornelia, 1,771
25. Nela, 1,648
26. Aleksandra, 1,522
27. Rozalia, 1,487
28. Blanka, 1,351
29. Jagoda, 1,343
30. Lilianna, 1,323
31. Anna, 1,310
32. Nadia, 1,238
33. Róza, 1,186
34. Mia, 1,181
35. Natalia, 1,110
36. Kaja, 1,094
37. Aurelia, 1,024
38. Aniela, 1,015
39. Anastazja, 987
40. Milena, 947
41. Sara, 873
42. Weronika, 821
43. Nina, 795
44. Matylda, 792
45. Nikola, 771
46. Barbara, 761
47. Jasmina, 751
48. Liwia, 734
49. Adrianna, 609
50. Eliza, 579

Boy names

1. Nikodem, 6,388 baby boys
2. Antoni, 5,404
3. Jan, 5,277
4. Aleksander, 5,170
5. Leon, 4,669
6. Franciszek, 4,574
7. Ignacy, 4,229
8. Jakub, 3,938
9. Stanislaw, 3,715
10. Mikolaj, 3,644
11. Filip, 3,097
12. Szymon, 2,722
13. Adam, 2,628
14. Maksymilian, 2,569
15. Wojciech, 2,552
16. Oliwier, 2,510
17. Tymon, 2,478
18. Marcel, 2,360
19. Kacper, 2,199
20. Wiktor, 1,993
21. Michal, 1,891
22. Julian, 1,853
23. Gabriel, 1,720
24. Oskar, 1,696
25. Milosz, 1,678
26. Igor, 1,638
27. Tymoteusz, 1,555
28. Piotr, 1,390
29. Bruno, 1,089
30. Hubert, 1,031 (tie)
31. Dawid, 1,031 (tie)
32. Tadeusz, 1,020
33. Krzysztof, 969
34. Natan, 928
35. Teodor, 923
36. Cezary, 911
37. Henryk, 904
38. Dominik, 884
39. Milan, 835
40. Karol, 779
41. Bartosz, 774
42. Mateusz, 732
43. Ksawery, 755
44. Artur, 701
45. Alan, 684
46. Fabian, 661
47. Tomasz, 656
48. Maciej, 650
49. Leo, 608
50. Daniel, 587

The news release made note of two names — Wieslawa (given to 2 baby girls) and Waclaw (given to 3 baby boys) — that were once quite popular, but today are “almost forgotten” (niemal zapomniane) in Poland.

P.S. The Polish letters L-with-a-stroke, Z-with-an-overdot, and S-with-an-accent don’t render properly on my site, so please imagine they exist in several of the above: the girl names Lucja, Róza, Jasmina, and Wieslawa, and the boy names Stanislaw, Mikolaj, Michal, Milosz, Waclaw.

Sources: Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce – Otwarte Dane, Najpopularniejsze imiona nadawane dzieciom w 2024 roku – Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji – Portal Gov.pl, Annual births in Poland hit new postwar low as population decline accelerates – Notes from Poland

Image: Adapted from Flag of Poland (public domain)