Waltrauta
Only a dozen women in Poland carry this name, and no baby has been given it this century. Germanic at root, it meant a powerful ruler, strong in battle.
Waltrauta Pronunciation
Waltrauta is pronounced vahlt-rah-OO-tah (/valtraˈuta/).
What Waltrauta means
Where Waltrauta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Waltrauta grows from Germanic roots. Old High German `walt` means to rule or wield power, and the second element comes from `þrūþ`, meaning strength. Put together they give the sense recorded here: a powerful ruler, strong in battle. The German form Waltraud shows the same two pieces.
The name kept its warrior coloring in music. Wagner gave it to a Valkyrie, Waltraute, who rides among her sisters in Die Walküre and returns in Götterdämmerung to plead with Brünnhilde. A Valkyrie decides who falls in battle. That role suits a name built from rule and strength.
In Poland the form Waltrauta stays rare. It reads as clearly German, and a teacher reading a class register would pause on the second syllable. The Polish gloss holds the same idea: silna, potężna władczyni.
How many people are named Waltrauta
1 in 1878653 women in Poland is named Waltrauta. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14652 among female names.
Waltrauta as a middle name
Waltrauta is a first name for 12 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6953rd, between Waltrant (2) and Wassem (2).
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#6951 Waja2
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#6952 Waltrant2
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#6953 Waltrauta2
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#6954 Wassem2
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#6955 Welina2