Waleriana
Only 13 women in Poland carry it, and last year not a single girl was given it: most Poles will never meet a Waleriana. The feminine of Walerian, from a Latin root meaning to be strong and healthy.
Waleriana Pronunciation
Waleriana is pronounced vah-ler-YAH-nah (/valɛrˈjana/).
What Waleriana means
Where Waleriana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Waleriana begins in Latin, in the verb valere, to be strong and to be healthy. Roman families carried the name Valerianus from that root, and its feminine form reached Polish as Waleriana. The meaning has stayed close to the source: silny, zdrowy. A name about health that keeps its first job.
Its nearest relative is Walerian, the masculine form. The two open from one root in the language, so a girl who signs Waleriana on a school register writes the same word a boy signs as Walerian. In Poland the masculine name is the more common of the pair.
The root reaches past people. The valerian plant, kozłek lekarski in Polish, took its name from the same valere, once trusted to calm and to strengthen. The word points two ways at once, toward a healthy person and toward a medicine. Waleriana holds the older sense plainly: to be strong, to be healthy.
When Waleriana celebrates name day
Waleriana appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 17 June.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Waleriana
1 in 1734141 women in Poland is named Waleriana. 13 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13789 among female names.
Waleriana as a middle name
Waleriana is a first name for 13 women in Poland and a middle name for another 38, a 25/75 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1130th, between Szarlotta (38) and Aleksa (37).
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#1128 Silvana38
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#1129 Szarlotta38
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#1130 Waleriana38
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#1131 Aleksa37
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#1132 Amélie37