Vali
Fewer than 60 men in Poland carry it, so meeting one would stick with you. A Slavic name of uncertain meaning, read as "the slain" or a warrior.
Vali Pronunciation
What Vali means
Where Vali comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vali comes to us with Slavic roots, though it wears a Scandinavian coat. The short meaning offered to Polish readers is "potężny, odważny", mighty and brave. In English an older sense points toward "the slain" or "warrior", and that reading stays uncertain.
The Scandinavian tie is easy to trace. Váli is a god in Norse myth, a son of Odin. He is born to avenge Baldr, grows in a single day, and takes up his bow young. That story travels with the name.
Yet the spine here is Slavic. The sense of a strong, daring bearer sits close to Slavic words for power. A boy named Vali in a Polish class register stands alone on the page, with no diminutive beside him.
Vali carries no listed variants and no cross-gender form. It arrives short. What stays with it is the plain gloss: potężny, odważny.
How many people are named Vali
1 in 368038 men in Poland is named Vali. 58 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4891 among male names.
Vali as a middle name
Vali is a first name for 58 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5084th, between Valerii (5) and Valter (5).
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#5082 Ung5
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#5083 Valerii5
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#5084 Vali5
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#5085 Valter5
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#5086 Varun5