Valérie
Just two dozen women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The root is Latin, meaning "strong, healthy".
Valérie Pronunciation
What Valérie means
Where Valérie comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Valérie grows from the Latin verb valere, which meant to be strong and to be healthy. The Roman clan name Valerius took the same root, and the French Valérie descends from that line. Its short meaning, strong and healthy, sits right next to the origin, so no later gloss had to supply it.
France gave the name a patron. Valérie of Limoges is a legendary martyr, a cephalophore who, in the old account, refused to marry the proconsul Julius Silanus and was beheaded. Her feast falls on 9 December. That date kept the name in French registers and calendars for centuries.
The spelling stays French. Picture a Polish class register with one Valérie among the Wiktorias. The accent on the e marks the name as borrowed, and it points back to valere, to be strong.
How many people are named Valérie
1 in 939326 women in Poland is named Valérie. 24 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8914 among female names.
Valérie as a middle name
Valérie is a first name for 24 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2218th, between Una (12) and Varvara (12).
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#2216 Tulia12
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#2217 Una12
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#2218 Valérie12
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#2219 Varvara12
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#2220 Vasiliki12