Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Willibald
/VIL · ee · balt/
Meaning
“Old Germanic name composed of wil (will) and”
Old Germanic name composed of wil (will) and bald (bold); borne by an 8th-century English missionary saint who evangelized Bavaria.
Nicknames
willi
Vibe
elegant
How it ages.
Archaic and deeply historical; rarely given today outside very traditional Catholic families.
The cultural moment.
Used in Bavaria and Austria historically; extremely rare for newborns since the mid-20th century.