Male

Mielec Standardized Given Name	Common Jewish Spellings	Common Polish / German Conversions	Common American Conversions	Notes
AARON	Aron; Aharon
ABRAHAM	Abram; Avrum; Abe	Adolf
ABISH	Abba			I make a distinction between ‘Abba’ and ‘Abe’ but often these are confused / muddled
AKIVA	Akiwa; Kiwe; Kiwa; Akiba
ALEXANDER	Sander; Sender; Sandor	Alex; Sendek
ALTER		Adolf
ANSHL	Anschel; Amschel; Anszel; Auczel
ARYEH	Ari; Arie; Arje			‘Aryeh’ is very often combined with ‘Leib’ i.e. ‘Aryeh Leib’
ASHER	Ascher; Aszer; Ojzer; Ozer; Uscher; Usha; Usher; Uszer	Ascek; Oskar	Oscar
AVIGDOR	Awigdor; Vigdor; Wigdor	Viktor	Victor
BARUCH	Boruch	Bunek	Benjamin; Bernard
BENEDICT	Beinish; Beinisz		Bernard
BENJAMIN	Beniamin	Benek
BENZION	Benzyon; Benzija; Bension
BER	Berl; Berel; Beryl; Berish; Berisch; Berysz		Bernard	‘Ber’ is very often combined with ‘Dov’ i.e. ‘Dov Ber’ – so often in fact that I treat them as the same name (as does Bieder)
BETZALEL	Betsalel; Bezalel; Calel; Calev; Zalel; Zallel;
CHAIM
ELIEZER	Laser; Lazer; Leiser; Leser
ELIJAH	Elias
HIRSCH	Herschel	Zisza
ISAAC	Yitzchok; Eisig	Izak	Isidore
ISRAEL		Izrael	Isidore
JOSEPH	Josef; Jozef
LEIB	Leibish		Leo
LEVI		Lewi
MEIR		Majer
MICHAEL	Mechel	Michał	Michael
MOSES	Moshe	Maurycy; Mojżesz	Morris; Moe
NAFTALI
WOLF	Zev
YECHIEL	Chiel

Female

Mielec Standardized Given Name	Hebrew Name	Common Yiddish Spellings (with Latin alphabet)	Common Polish / German Spellings	Common American Conversions	Notes
ALTA		Alte
BEILA	Bilha / Beyle בלהה	Beile
BASIA	Basheve / Batsheva בת שבע
BLUMA	n/a
BRAINDEL	n/a	Breindel
DEVORAH	Dvoyre דבורה	Dobra; Dvore; Dora	Dwojre	Deborah; Debbie	Beider makes a distinction between “Dobre”, “Dore”, and “Dvoyre” – I don’t.
DINA	Dine דינה		Adela
EIDEL	n/a
ESTHER	Ester אסתר	Etel; Etla	Ester
FEIGA	n/a	Feige			Beider says that “Feiga” is a derivation of “Tzipporah”, but in Mielec there were women who were clearly named both and separately. Hence two listings here.
FRIEDA	n/a	Freindel			Beider makes a distinction between “Freyde” and “Fride” – I don’t.
FRUMET		Frimet; Fruma
GELE	n/a
GENENDEL	n/a
GITEL		Gitl
GOLDA	n/a	Golde
HINDA
ITA	Yehudit יהודית	Itte; Ite; Itka; Itla; Itty; Itzel; Yetta		Edith
LEAH		Lea; Lena	Laja
MIRIAM		Mania	Marjem
PEARL		Perel; Perl
PESL		Pesel
RACHEL		Ruchel
ROZA		Rosa; Reisel; Reizel
SARAH		Sara
SHAINDEL		Scheindel
SHPRINTZA		Sprinca
SIMCHAH		Sima
TOVA		Tauba
TZIRIL		Cerla

List of Standardized Surnames and Common Spellings

Mielec Standardized Surname	Alternate Spellings	Common American Conversions	Notes
BIGELEISEN	BIEGELEISEN
FERDERBER	FERBER
FRIEDMAN	FRIEDMANN
HALLER	HELLER; HILLER; HILLEL
HUDES
KARTAGENER	KARTAGARER
LANDER	LIND
LEIDNER	LEINER
REISS
RUBIN	RUBEN
RUBINFELD	RUBENFELD
SALZ
SCHULLER	SCHILLER
SINAI	SAN; SANN
SIEGELMAN	ZIEGELMANN
SPITZ