About polish names
Feminine surnames take the -ska and -wska endings, as in "Kinga Bielawska", while masculine forms like "Witold Konopnicki" and "Ambroży Kaliński" keep the -ski. Diacritics arrive intact, so the results paste cleanly into historical fiction or family saga drafts. Shorter surnames such as Kiszka read more rural, a useful lever when sorting gentry from villagers.
How polish names are built
This set uses gender-split given and surname banks: 208 male given names and 169 female, paired with 1200 male surnames and 1200 female surnames, so both parts agree in gender. Each result is given plus surname. Sample output includes Anzelm Rudkowski and Stas Urbaniak from the male banks and Ola Kaczynska and Wirginia Zubek from the female banks.
Anzelm Rudkowski
Anzelm (given, male bank) + Rudkowski (surname, male bank)
male given name plus a male-bank surname
Ola Kaczyńska
Ola (given, female bank) + Kaczyńska (surname, female bank)
female given name plus a female-bank surname
Staś Urbaniak
Staś (given, male bank) + Urbaniak (surname, male bank)
male given name plus a male-bank surname
Naming notes
The structural signature is the two equally large 1200-entry surname banks, one per gender, so a result draws its family name from the bank matching the given-name slot. The surname pools are the largest slots, so surnames vary widely against the smaller given banks (208 male, 169 female). The source spellings keep the diacritics as published.
Questions about polish names
- Why are there separate male and female surname banks?
- The generator keeps two 1200-entry surname pools, one per gender, and draws the surname from the bank matching the given-name slot so the two parts agree.
- Are the diacritics authentic?
- The spellings keep the diacritics exactly as the source data publishes them, so forms like Kaczyńska and Staś are preserved rather than stripped.
- Which slot carries the most variation?
- Each surname bank holds 1200 entries against given banks of 208 male and 169 female, so the surname varies far more than the first name.