Waleriia
Just 14 women in Poland carry this spelling, a name most people here will never meet. Its Latin root points to the sense of "strong, healthy".
Waleriia Pronunciation
Waleriia is pronounced vah-LERY-yah (/vaˈlɛrjja/).
What Waleriia means
Where Waleriia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Waleriia grows from the Latin Valerius, a Roman family name tied to the verb valere, meaning to be strong and to stay healthy. The variant Waleria keeps closer to that Latin surface. Walery hands the name to men, and Wala is the small home version a child answers to.
The doubled i points east. Waleriia renders the Ukrainian Валерія in Polish letters, a spelling that has spread with families crossing the border in recent decades. Among Polish speakers the name still reads as kin to Waleria.
The meaning of strong and healthy comes straight from valere. Saint Valeria, an early martyr, later fixed the name in the church calendar. On a Polish class register, Waleriia now sits beside Waleria, one Latin verb behind both.
How many people are named Waleriia
1 in 1610274 women in Poland is named Waleriia. 14 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13079 among female names.