Walerija
Fewer than thirty women in Poland carry it, and no newborn has taken it this century. A Latin name at root, from the word for "strong, healthy", and a rarer cousin of Waleria.
Walerija Pronunciation
Walerija is pronounced vah-le-REE-yah (/valɛˈrija/).
What Walerija means
Where Walerija comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Walerija grows from Latin. The root is the verb valere, to be strong and to be healthy. Roman families bore the name Valerius, and its feminine forms moved north until Polish spelling fixed them as Walerija and, more often now, Waleria.
The short meaning holds to that root: silna, zdrowa, strong and healthy. To be named Walerija is to be tied to an old wish for health rather than to any saint's legend. The sense stays plain.
Read a Polish class register and you may find a Waleria before a Walerija; the variant with one letter fewer collects more girls. The masculine Walery belongs to the same family, and at home the long name shortens fast to Wala. Wala is what a child answers to.
How many people are named Walerija
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Walerija. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8668 among female names.