Walli
Just 12 women in Poland carry this name, so most Poles have never met one. It comes from Germanic roots meaning "ruler of the fortress".
Walli Pronunciation
Walli is pronounced VAHL-lee (/ˈvalli/).
What Walli means
Where Walli comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Walli grows from Germanic soil. The name sets two old elements side by side: wald, meaning to rule, and burg, a fortress or walled stronghold. Together they give what the name means here, ruler of the fortress. In Polish that reads as władczyni twierdzy.
The same roots stand behind Saint Walburga, an English-born abbess who worked in eighth-century Frankish lands. Her feast falls on 1 May. The night before, 30 April, took her name as Walpurgisnacht. So the fortress element in Walli belongs to a name the calendar still marks, a real place in the record rather than a story attached later.
Walli is short. On a school class register it sits firm beside longer Germanic forms. The burg in it still names a fortress.
How many people are named Walli
1 in 1878653 women in Poland is named Walli. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14650 among female names.
Walli as a middle name
Walli is a first name for 12 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3449th, between Von (6) and Waltrand (6).
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#3447 Vitoria6
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#3448 Von6
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#3449 Walli6
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#3450 Waltrand6
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#3451 Waltruda6