Given name & surname · also Polish

Walek

“one who is strong and healthy”

In Polish use, Walek is a diminutive of Walenty. In Polish use, Walenty carries the interpretation “one who is strong and healthy.”

Original PolishWalenty

Meaning & origin

What it means

In Polish use, Walek is a diminutive of Walenty. In Polish use, Walenty carries the interpretation “one who is strong and healthy.”

Explained through its name family

Where it comes from

Walek comes from Polish, and ultimately from Czech.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Polish Wałek, from Czech Válek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Walek’s family of names

In Polish usage, Walek is a diminutive of Walenty. In Polish usage, Walek has a conventional equivalent in Vȧlek. Walek has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Walenty.

Walk Walek’s family in the name graph

WalekWalentyValekWallekVálekWałekVȧlek

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Walek has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Czech roots to each of them.

EnglishCzech

Czechwhere Walek comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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