Wilibald
Barely a hundred Polish men carry it, and not one boy has been given it since the records start in 2000. Germanic at root, from a name meaning "resolute, brave will".
Wilibald Pronunciation
Wilibald is pronounced vee-LEE-bahlt (/viˈlibalt/).
What Wilibald means
Where Wilibald comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wilibald is a Germanic name built from two old roots. The first, "willo," means will or resolve. The second, "bald," means bold or brave. Together they give the sense recorded in Polish as "silna, śmiała wola," a strong and daring will.
The name traveled with a real person. Saint Willibald, an eighth-century monk from Wessex, became bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria. He is counted among the first Englishmen to leave a written account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. His name day falls on 7 July. Through him the Germanic form spread across Latin Christendom and reached Polish registers.
In Poland Wilibald stays rare. On an official form at the urząd the name still splits cleanly into its two parts. Will and brave. The meaning holds: silna, śmiała wola.
When Wilibald celebrates name day
Wilibald appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 7 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 Wilibald
1 in 203297 men in Poland is named Wilibald. 105 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3343 among male names.
Wilibald as a middle name
Wilibald is a first name for 105 men in Poland and a middle name for another 33, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1462nd, between Tzvi (33) and Yair (33).
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#1460 Tommy33
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#1461 Tzvi33
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#1462 Wilibald33
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#1463 Yair33
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#1464 Albeiro32