Valerii
A Latin name at root, from valere, "to be strong and healthy". In Poland it's carried almost entirely by men, most of them Ukrainian or Russian bearers, and meeting one is still something you'd remember.
Valerii Pronunciation
What Valerii means
Where Valerii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Valerii traces back to Latin, to the verb valere, which meant to be strong and to be healthy. From it the Romans built the family name Valerius, borne by an old and powerful gens that included Publius Valerius Publicola, a consul in the first years of the Republic. The short meaning stayed close to the root: strong, healthy.
In Ukrainian and Russian the name settled as Valerii. Ukraine remembers Valeriy Lobanovskyi, the football manager whose name holds the same Latin root.
Polish keeps the name close by. Here it turns into Walery, and the feminine Waleria answers it across the gender line. Read out at an imieniny, Valerii still points to that old sense of health.
The name is short. Its meaning holds: siła i zdrowie, strength and health drawn straight from valere.
How many people are named Valerii
1 in 1739 men in Poland is named Valerii. 12,280 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #337 among male names.
Valerii's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Valerii as a middle name
Valerii is a first name for 12,280 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5083rd, between Ung (5) and Vali (5).
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