Waltraut
Just 144 people in Poland carry it, and not one newborn has received it since 2000: most Poles will never meet a Waltraut. The name comes from Germanic roots meaning "strong ruler".
Waltraut Pronunciation
Waltraut is pronounced vahlt-RAH-oot (/valtˈraut/).
What Waltraut means
Where Waltraut comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Waltraut grew from Old High German. Its first part, walt, comes from waltan, to rule or wield power. The second, traut, goes back to thrūth, a word for strength. Together they give the meaning still printed on baby-name lists: strong ruler.
The name belongs to German-speaking lands, where it spread among girls born in the early twentieth century. A woman named Waltraut born around 1930 would sit near the top of any family's list of elders.
Saint Waltrude of Mons, a Frankish noblewoman of the seventh century, carried a name built from the same two roots. Her feast falls on the ninth of April. That link ties the sense of rule and strength to a real medieval life.
Today a Polish parent might meet the name on an old document at the urząd. It reads plainly. Waltraut: silna władczyni, a strong ruler.
How many people are named Waltraut
1 in 161027 women in Poland is named Waltraut. 144 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2726 among female names.
Waltraut as a middle name
Waltraut is a first name for 144 women in Poland and a middle name for another 42, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1070th, between Viola (42) and Wayan (42).
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#1068 Thea42
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#1069 Viola42
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#1070 Waltraut42
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#1071 Wayan42
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#1072 Yvette42