Valentina

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Valentina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Valentine.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine1 in 41◐
  • GRGreece1 in 48
  • RURussia1 in 68

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.5M ●

across 11 countries

#13 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
489 ●

22M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 106 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

ВалентинаCyrillic · Russian●14M records
SoniaLatin · Portuguese●6.4M records
ΣοφιαGreek · Greek●236K records
סופיהHebrew · Hebrew●109K records
ᲨონიაGeorgian · Georgian●11K records
โซเฟียThai · Thai●3.3K records
소피아Hangul · Korean●45 records
ՍոֆիաArmenian · Armenian●17 records
সোরাযারBengali · Bangla●0 records

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sonia in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain and 5 more, Sofia in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, GR Greece and 4 more, Валентина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and Sophia in NL Netherlands, AU Australia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Valentine.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Valentina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#1715,109,6693.3M rec.—#2Валентина184
UA Ukraine#117,630,0867.6M rec.—listedВалентина85
AR Argentina#224,025,5301.8M rec.—75KSofia162
MX Mexico#60950,721584K rec.—1.6KSofia228
GR Greece#11720,3879.9K rec.—230KSofia157
PE Peru#40641,673456K rec.—#6Sonia92
CL Chile#18631,45152K rec.—2.3KValentina156
BD Bangladesh#50481,603784 rec.——Sonia39
IN India#928407,101249K rec.—315Soniya167
VE Venezuela#52406,751182K rec.—2.8KSonia99
CO Colombia#18401,325151K rec.—602Valentina174
IT Italy#9398,585196K rec.—4.6KSofia224

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish2.3M45%
  • Portuguese1.2M24%
  • English450K9%
  • Hungarian178K3%
  • German110K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish2,304,30745%
Portuguese1,247,80924%
English450,4439%
Hungarian178,3793%
German109,7382%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Valentina is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lithuanian given name77K records spelled Valentina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, Italy, United States

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Valentīna

  • Romanian given name75K records spelled Valentina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, Romania, Italy, Spain

  • Estonian given name29K records spelled Valentina6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, United States, Russia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Välëntïnä, Valentīna, Valéntiná, Valentìna

  • Lao given name18K records spelled Valentina45 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Chile, Thailand, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written วาเลนติน่า, Välëntïnä, วาเลนตินา, 'Valentina, Valentĭna

  • Albanian given name18K records spelled Valentina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States, Kosovo

    Also written Váleñtinã

  • a separate given name14K records spelled Valentina6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Valentīna, Valentinà, Valentína, Ṿalenṭina, Valentìna

  • Indonesian given name12K records spelled Valentina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, United States, Italy

    Also written 'Valentina, Valentína

74 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Valentina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Valentina är en femininform till → Valentin. Namnet har blivit populärt de senaste årtiondena.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Italian, forma feminina de Valentino

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In French, Féminin de Valentinus, du latin valens, « forte, saine ». Fête: 14 février.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, Strong, healthy

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, ) Valentine: weibl. Vom., weibHche Form von

    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●

02K4K6K190019502000

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Valentina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1897–2025
Yearrecords
18975
19006
19018
19089
19108
19118
191212
191310
191422
191517
191617
191730
191827
191934
192036
192129
192240
192343
192429
192541
192632
192732
192828
192926
193039
193127
193221
193329
193422
193522
193616
193714
193821
193916
194028
194123
194226
194319
194417
194525
194615
194735
194829
194921
195041
195144
195272
195360
195458
195570
195662
195781
195853
195950
196066
196162
196263
196395
196486
196587
196691
196779
196873
196969
197057
197170
197265
197368
197447
197567
197660
197758
197856
197966
198076
198190
198268
198388
198462
1985100
198696
1987114
198891
1989122
1990135
1991116
1992120
1993184
1994195
1995194
1996203
1997231
1998256
1999269
2000327
2001399
2002427
2003654
2004611
2005657
2006725
2007829
20081,292
20091,585
20102,005
20112,018
20121,904
20132,565
20142,783
20152,751
20162,920
20173,042
20183,436
20193,797
20203,352
20213,467
20223,901
20234,090
20244,456
20255,354

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 120 years between 1897–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Valentina Grizodubova, b. 1909Valentina Cortese, b. 1923Valentina Tereshkova, b. 1937Valentina Matvienko, b. 1949Valentina Lisitsa, b. 1970Valentina Vezzali, b. 1974Valentina Monetta, b. 1975Valentina Rubtsova, b. 1977Valentina Nappi, b. 1990

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 126 sources across 63 countries.

Official registers attesting Valentina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022193K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—192K#169
RO RomaniaDEPABD — name-day population snapshot202286K—
RO RomaniaDEPABD — resident population names202286K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202068K—
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—58K#11
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202049K#910
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—40K#205
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—33K#130
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names—23K#22
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai—23K#22
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202420K#108

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 1,389 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Valentina?
We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Valentina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Valentina have the most bearers?
Valentina is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled валентина.
How common is Valentina compared with other names?
In Russia, Valentina is the 17th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Valentina a male or female name?
Valentina is a female 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 does the name Valentina mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Valentine.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Valentina” — the 17th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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