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My husband's mother is half Polish, and we considered using a Polish name ever since Noah, our oldest, was born, but we never found the right one until we came across Janusz. Personally I LOVE Polish names and spellings, but it's pretty hard to find a name that doesn't sound too strange and won't be mispronounced or spelled the wrong way the entire time. So I think Oliwia is pretty too, but we never seriously considered it, because it would be too complicated for most people. We notice it with Janusz too, we often have to spell his name or say it a few times before people understand. I don't regret naming him Janusz, but we didn't want that again.

I had talked about it here. We had already decided on Olivia then, but we were stuck on a middle name.

Salka is a name we discovered through the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. They have a really beautiful song called Salka, which is also an Icelandic girls name. It's a Nordic and Slavic pet name of Sara/Sarah. A few years later someone told me it's also a Hebrew pet form of Salomé.