Walerian
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Walerian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 26K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1M
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
1,483 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Walerian counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #962 | 1,483 | 1 in 26K | 1.5K | Walerian | 33 |
| US United States | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | — | Walerian | 31 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | — | Walerian | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Walerian | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | 1 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
1,483 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Valerian Kalinkab. 1826PLnot in their usual namePolish historian (1826–1886)
- Aleksander Walerian Jabłonowskib. 1829PLPolish historian (1829–1913)
- Walery Mroczkowskib. 1840FRnot in their usual namePolish January Uprising insurgent, anarchist, portrait photographer
- Walerian Bierdiajewb. 1885BYPolish conductor, composer and music educator (1885–1956)
- Valerian Bakradzeb. 1901GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian Soviet politician
- Walerian Borowczykb. 1923PLPolish film director (1923–2006)
- Walerian Pańkob. 1941PLPolish lawyer (1941–1991)
- Valerian Sokolovb. 1946RUnot in their usual nameSoviet Russian bantamweight amateur boxer
- Valeriane Gaprindashvilib. 1982GEnot in their usual nameGeorgian chess player
- Valeriane Gviliab. 1994GEnot in their usual namefootballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Walerian a male or female name?
- Walerian is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Walerian?
- In the etymology graph, Valerian, Valérian and Valerianus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Walerian have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Walerian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled walerian.
- Where is Walerian most common?
- Walerian is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Walerian?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,483 people named Walerian in 2026, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Walerian compared with other names?
- In Poland, Walerian is the 962nd most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Walerian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/walerianThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Walerian” — the 962nd most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.