Zaali
Carries the meaning "falcon". In Poland it barely registers: around 43 men hold it, and not a single boy has been given it since 2000.
Zaali Pronunciation
Zaali is pronounced zah-AH-lee (/zaˈali/).
What Zaali means
Where Zaali comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zaali means falcon. In Polish that word is sokół, a bird known for height and eyesight. The name's origin sits outside the familiar sources that fill a Polish register, the Slavic roots and the saints' Latin. It is filed simply under other, an honest label for a name whose road into Polish is not documented here.
What stays fixed is the sense. A falcon hunts by sight and speed, and the Polish sokół keeps that reputation in poems and in heraldry. To carry a name that means falcon is to be linked, by meaning alone, to that bird rather than to a Slavic virtue or a churchyard patron.
Zaali has no diminutive on record and no name-day of its own. On an official form at the urząd it stands alone, without a variant beside it. The one thing the name states plainly is its meaning: falcon, sokół.
How many people are named Zaali
1 in 496423 men in Poland is named Zaali. 43 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5909 among male names.