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Oh I love it! It's really debonair.

Interesting meaning.

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I really don't have a frame of reference for the name. I don't know enough of Polish etymology, pronunciation rules or anything of the sort to form an opinion. It's like asking a non-English speaker what they think of Scholastica.

I live in an area with a huge Polish population, so I've gotten used to a lot of names that others consider really hard to pronounce: Małgorzata, Wojciech... and of course Zbigniew. I would never use it personally, but I find it a lot of fun to say (now that I know how to say it). It makes me smile!

Thought I'd throw in my two cents since I'm Polish - here, the name is seen as elderly sounding, and most Zbigniews are over 50 and go by Zbyszek. I don't think it suits a child and I dislike the sound.

It has a cool meaning. The word 'big' jumps out at me. The ending might be better spelled phonetically (and I prefer Zbygnev, partly because I think people where I live would be quicker to catch onto a V being like an F - like the relatively popular Russian name Lev and in Arabic - than they would a W being like an F), unless it's being used by Polish people, but either way, the Z proceeding a consonant still looks hard to pronounce in English. It'd be interesting to see, though.

This message was edited 1/5/2020, 1:42 PM

I have no words.

The meaning is cool. It's a nifty Polish name, just doesn't work in English very well IMO.
Very associated with Brzezinski - at least, in the US for my generation, it surely is.
The way his name has become normally pronounced here (in the media) is Z'BIG-nyoo.

Eh, kinda seems like someone is saying "The big new" even tho it's not pronounced like that

This message was edited 1/5/2020, 12:05 PM

Do you live in Poland? It's a nice name, but I don't think it would wear well outside of Polish speaking regions.

"What's Z-big-news?" lol that's what I think of whenever I see this name. Sorry.