Waldtraut
Fewer than 20 women in Poland carry this name, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000. Germanic at root, it joins the words for "rule" and "strength" into "powerful ruler".
Waldtraut Pronunciation
Waldtraut is pronounced vahltt-RAH-oot (/valttˈraut/).
What Waldtraut means
Where Waldtraut comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Waldtraut is built from two Germanic roots. The first, wald, comes from the verb waltan, to rule or to hold power. The second, traut, goes back to an older Germanic þrūþ, meaning strength. Read together they give the name its plain sense: a powerful ruler, a woman of strength.
The name is thoroughly German. It belonged mostly to women born in the first decades of the twentieth century, and it grew rare after them. The sound is old German. A Polish reader meets it seldom.
Picture the name written once on a form at the urząd, the clerk slowing over the cluster of consonants in the middle. It does not soften for easier spelling. What stays fixed under the ink is the sense the roots hand over: power to rule, and strength.
How many people are named Waldtraut
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Waldtraut. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12391 among female names.
Waldtraut as a middle name
Waldtraut is a first name for 15 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5343rd, between Věra (3) and Wannesa (3).
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#5341 Véronica3
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#5342 Věra3
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#5343 Waldtraut3
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#5344 Wannesa3
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#5345 Welika3