Walentyna
From Latin, carrying the sense of "strong, healthy". Around 5,600 Polish women share it, few enough that meeting one sticks in memory.
Walentyna Pronunciation
Walentyna is pronounced vah-len-TIH-nah (/valɛnˈtɨna/).
What Walentyna means
Where Walentyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Walentyna comes from Latin, from the verb valere, meaning to be strong or to be in good health. Roman families built the name Valentinus from that root, and Walentyna is the feminine form Polish took up. The short meaning stays close to the source: strong, healthy.
The same verb feeds English words like valid, valiant, and value, all of them turning on the idea of holding firm. Set Walentyna beside the male walenty or the variant valentin and you can watch one root cross both language and gender.
In a Polish class register the name sits at full length, four syllables, while friends trim it to Wala. The root never promised anything grand. Strong, healthy. That plain sense is what walenty and valentin carry too.
When Walentyna celebrates name day
Walentyna appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 25 July.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Walentyna
1 in 3990 women in Poland is named Walentyna. 5,650 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #465 among female names.
Walentyna's popularity over time
6 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #902 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2022. Still the #465 name among living women, even as it slips to #902 among newborns.
Where Walentyna is most popular
Walentyna is most popular in Greater Poland, 197% above the national average (8 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+181%) and Łódź (+153%). It is least common in Masovian, 10% below average.
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Greater Poland8 girls born+197%
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Silesian8 girls born+181%
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Łódź4 girls born+153%
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Lesser Poland3 girls born+6%
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Masovian4 girls born−10%
Walentyna as a middle name
Walentyna is a first name for 5,650 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3,597, a 61/39 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 161st, between Lilianna (3,720) and Estera (3,452).
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#159 Victoria3,768
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#160 Lilianna3,720
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#161 Walentyna3,597
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#162 Estera3,452
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#163 Alfreda3,432