Willow
The name points to the willow tree, wierzba at its Slavic root. In Poland it stays rare: only about 25 women carry it, and newborns have all but stopped.
Willow Pronunciation
Willow is pronounced VEEL-lof (/ˈvillɔf/).
What Willow means
Where Willow comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Willow comes into naming from English, and it means exactly what the tree means: the willow, in Polish wierzba. The word names a thing you can point at by a river. As a first name it stays close to that plant, a tree that grows fast near water.
The name traveled on English. Willow Smith, born in 2000, carried it into pop music and made it familiar far past the English-speaking world. Before her, the 1988 film "Willow" put the word on a hero, though there it named a man.
On a Polish register the name meets its Slavic cousin. Wierzba is an old Slavic word, and the willow itself lines Polish rivers and marks Niedziela Palmowa, when pussy willow branches stand in for palm. A child called Willow on a class list in Kraków sits one step from that tree.
Willow has no Polish diminutive of its own. It stays short. Say it and you have already said wierzba.
How many people are named Willow
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Willow. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8672 among female names.
Willow's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Willow as a middle name
Willow is a first name for 25 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2225th, between Wiktora (12) and Yen (12).
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#2223 Vita12
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#2224 Wiktora12
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#2225 Willow12
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#2226 Yen12
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#2227 Yesenia12