Polish Name Generator

Choose a count from 1 to 10, pick Male, Female or Random, and the Polish Name Generator returns that many full names, a first name and a surname each, on cards with a copy button. The list holds 316 names, 150 male and 166 female, such as Antoni Rzepka, Agnieszka Szymczyk and Anzelm Stefański. It's for writers who need a Polish character, developers seeding test data with realistic Central European names, and game masters populating a town.

What you can set

Two controls: how many names, and a gender filter. Random draws from the whole list; Male and Female limit the draw to that half. Each press shuffles the filtered list and shows the first N, so a single batch never repeats a name, and a second press gives a fresh set. There is no first-name-only or surname-only mode; if you just want surnames, the Random Last Name Generator is the better tool.

What kind of names are in the list

First names are a mix of formal names (Antoni, Agata, Anastazja, Agnieszka) and the diminutives Poles actually use day to day (Arek for Arkadiusz, Jarek for Jarosław, Ania and Anka for Anna), with a few older or regional spellings mixed in. Surnames come from the common Polish types: adjectival ones in -ski, -cki and -dzki (Stefański, Michalski, Olszewski), patronymics in -owicz and -ewicz, occupational and nickname surnames (Kowalczyk from kowal, "smith"; Gawron, "rook"; Rzepka, "little turnip"), and the widespread -ak and -ik endings (Kujawa, Michalik, Bartosik).

Adjectival surnames change with the bearer's gender, and the list respects that: men get -ski, -cki and -dzki, women get -ska, -cka and -dzka, so a female draw gives you Anastazja Rutkowska rather than Rutkowski. Surnames that are nouns (Kujawa, Szymczyk, Rzepka) stay the same for both. Nearly every female first name ends in -a, which is how you can tell the gender of a Polish name at a glance.

Reading a Polish name correctly

Stress almost always falls on the second-to-last syllable: ko-WAL-czyk, ste-FAŃ-ski. Getting that right does more for a character's credibility in dialogue than any spelling choice.

Where the names get used

• Fiction set in or near Poland. A named barista, a detective's partner, a whole street of neighbors, without reaching for Kowalski every time.
• Test data. The diacritics (ń, ł, ś) are a good check that a form, database and PDF export all handle Polish characters.
• Tabletop campaigns with a Slavic-flavored setting; pair a name with the Random Job Generator for a quick NPC.
• Placeholder profiles for a mockup or a sign-up form that requires a name you don't want to be yours.

Neighboring naming traditions have their own pages: the German Name Generator and Austrian Name Generator. Everything of this type is under all name generators.