Waltrauda
Only around 329 women in Poland carry this Germanic name, so most Poles have never met one, and no girls have been given it in years. Fitting, then, that it means "mighty ruler".
Waltrauda Pronunciation
Waltrauda is pronounced vahlt-rah-OO-dah (/valtraˈuda/).
What Waltrauda means
Where Waltrauda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Waltrauda comes from the Germanic name Waltraud, assembled from two Old High German elements. The first, walt, means ruler or power. The second, from þrūþ, means strength. Set side by side, they give one reading: a powerful, mighty ruler.
The best documented bearer lived in the seventh century. Saint Waltrude of Mons, born around 610 in Cousolre, became patron of the Belgian city of Mons, where her shrine still rests in the collegiate church named for her. Her feast falls on 9 April. In French records she appears as Waudru, in Dutch as Waldetrudis, in German as Waltraud.
In Poland the name stays rare. A girl who holds it will share it with almost no one on a class register, and the older German spelling Waltraud sits just behind. The sense stays fixed across every form: silna, potężna władczyni.
How many people are named Waltrauda
1 in 68522 women in Poland is named Waltrauda. 329 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1667 among female names.
Waltrauda as a middle name
Waltrauda is a first name for 329 women in Poland and a middle name for another 69, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 810th, between Vivian (69) and Yasmin (69).
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#808 Julietta69
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#809 Vivian69
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#810 Waltrauda69
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#811 Yasmin69
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#812 Bernadyna68