Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Waleska isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Waleska through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 542
- 0 boys · 542 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,861 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,861 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 21 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,774 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Waleska’s family of names
Waleska may belong to the same name family as WALESKKA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Valerieequivalent
- Valeriaequivalent
- Valeriyaequivalent
- Valérieequivalent
- Valériaequivalent
- Waleriaequivalent
- Valerijaequivalent
- Валерияequivalent
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People named Waleska
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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