Kinga

I'm about to have my first child, a boy, but I'm adding this to my list for a future child if it's a girl. So cool. And I have Polish ancestry so I don't feel like it's too weird to use. It's one of the few Polish names that are easily pronounceable for English speakers. Anja is on my list too.

It makes me think of Kanga, the mama kangaroo from Winnie the Pooh.

Kinga is actually one of my favorite names. It has never made me think about dogs at all.

Actually my name is Kinga and right now I feel little bit offended by your comment and suggest that it could be a dog's name... I'm not taking this to heart but I guess no one would be happy to hear something like this even if you don't like this name 'cause you don't have to. And also I can't understand why every English name can be cool and nice all over the place but for e.g Kinga couldn't. After all the comments I've read I'm even more curious how do Americans will really react at my name.

Have to say, I'm not overly keen on this particular choice. I acknowledge it as feminine and would never discourage anyone who wanted to use it but, to me, Kinga sounds masculine on account of the 'KING' and, overall, sounds around about as appropriate for a girl as Queeno might sound for a boy. Perhaps one might consider the Norse Kolga, apparently meaning "The Cool One".

I like Kinga, I wouldn't use it but I think it has some exotic moxy like Olga...if you like guttural Slavic names that is.

I don't hear it as royalty, more like King Kong or a dog's Conga/Konga toy. Unsavory.