Valdis
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valdis is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script.
- LVLatvia1 in 333◐
- ISIceland1 in 630
- EEEstonia1 in 19K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.7K ●
- Sources
- 84 ●
- 1 in 333 ◐
across 9 countries
3.1K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Meaning & origin●
ezers Valkas novada Ērģemes pagastā, Turnas ezeru grupā, platība - 24,8 ha, garums - 900 m, lielākais platums - 350 m, vidējais dziļums - 6,3 m, lielākais dziļums - 14,1 m; Vadžu ezers; Valža ezers; Valžezers; Valžu ezers
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #65 | 5,644△ | 1.8K rec. | 1 in 333 | 5.6K | Valdis | 78 |
| IS Iceland | — | 557 | — | 1 in 630 | 557 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 249 | 869 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 249 | Valdis | 84 |
| EE Estonia | — | 221 | 43 rec. | — | 104 | Valdis | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 208 | 111 rec. | — | listed | Valdis | 37 |
| SE Sweden | — | 134△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 76K | 134 | Valdis | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 57 | — | 1 in 3.7M | 57 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | — | 43 | 35 rec. | — | listed | Valdis | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | 42 | 40 rec. | — | — | Valdis | 15 |
| RU Russia | — | 42 | 36 rec. | — | — | Valdis | 16 |
| IE Ireland | — | 24 | 22 rec. | — | — | Valdis | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 23 | — | 1 in 1.7M | 23 | — | — |
Roughly 5.6K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 333). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Latvian10K59%
- English2.7K15%
- Icelandic7694%
- Portuguese5263%
- Spanish3782%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 10,141 | 59% |
| English | 2,659 | 15% |
| Icelandic | 769 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 526 | 3% |
| Spanish | 378 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Valdis is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In German, männl. Vom. lettischer Herkunft (zu lett. valdft »herrschen«: »Herrscher«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 44 |
| 2000 | 45 |
| 2001 | 44 |
| 2002 | 44 |
| 2003 | 45 |
| 2004 | 44 |
| 2005 | 42 |
| 2006 | 40 |
| 2007 | 35 |
| 2008 | 37 |
| 2009 | 37 |
| 2010 | 33 |
| 2011 | 32 |
| 2012 | 31 |
| 2013 | 32 |
| 2014 | 34 |
| 2015 | 36 |
| 2016 | 38 |
| 2017 | 37 |
| 2018 | 39 |
| 2019 | 40 |
| 2020 | 39 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Valdis Muižnieksb. 1935RUbasketball player (1935–2013)
- Valdis Liepiņšb. 1939LVLatvian politician and economist
- Valdis Birkavsb. 1942LVLatvian politician (born 1942)
- Valdís Óskarsdóttirb. 1950ISIcelandic film editor, film director and screenwriter
- Valdis Zatlersb. 1955LVPresident of Latvia
- Valdis Valtersb. 1957LVLatvian basketball player (born 1957)
- Valdis Muktupāvelsb. 1958LVLatvian composer and ethnomusicologist (born 1958)
- Ģirts Valdis Kristovskisb. 1962LVLatvian politician (born 1962)
- Valdis Pelšsb. 1967LVRussian actor
- Valdis Dombrovskisb. 1971LV11th Prime Minister of Latvia
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●
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 5.6K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 5.6K | #85 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 249 | #32,025 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 143 | #4,224 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 134 | #7,004 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 116 | #7,051 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 104 | #676 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #9,276 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 57 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 45 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 45 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 44 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 76 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Valdis?
- We estimate roughly 6.7 thousand people bear Valdis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Valdis have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.6 thousand people bear Valdis in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled valdis.
- Where is Valdis most common?
- Valdis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 333 people carrying it.
- How common is Valdis compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Valdis is the 65th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
- Is Valdis a male or female name?
- Valdis is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Valdis” — the 65th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.