Valdemar

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Danish; fictional country, M

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

/vawdemax/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Valdemar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 4.4K
  • DKDenmark1 in 733

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

57,906 people, 2022

Sources
134 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 733 (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Danish; fictional country, M.

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Valdemar, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Valdemar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Valdemar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#51657,9061 in 3.7K82KValdemar117
SE Sweden—12,1521 in 84012K—21
DK Denmark—8,0091 in 7338K——
FI Finland—6,5151 in 85521K—3
AO Angola#253≈5,400 est.≈1 in 6.1K3Valdemar19
PT Portugal#390≈2,300 est.≈1 in 4.4KlistedValdemar79

57,906 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Valdemar is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Valdemár

  • Polish given name37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Waldemar, Вальдемар, Val'Demar, 'Waldemar, Вальдэмар

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Portugal, Switzerland

    Also written Valdémar

45 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(measured from records)

Valdemar 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 English, king, Denmark; pers. name,

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Lackey

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1000120014001600180020002200Valdemar I of Denmark, b. 1131Valdemar II, b. 1170Valdemar III of Denmark, b. 1314Valdemar IV of Denmark, b. 1320Waldemar Haffkine, b. 1856Prince Valdemar of Denmark, b. 1858Haakon VII of Norway, b. 1872Frederik IX, b. 1899Valdemaras Chomičius, b. 1959Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark, b. 2005

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalOlá Valdemar,Hi Valdemar, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 58 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Valdemar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—82K#542
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202258K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—58K#513
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—21K#111
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12K#340
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—8K#89
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—6.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.4K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present)2024347#15
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—155#513
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202086—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#28,768

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Valdemar mean, and where does it come from?
Danish; fictional country, M. Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
What are other forms of the name Valdemar?
In the etymology graph, Volodymyr, Vladimir and Waldemar are forms of the same name in other languages; Valto is a recorded short or pet form.
How do you pronounce Valdemar?
A machine transcription gives /vawdemax/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Valdemar have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 58 thousand people named Valdemar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valdemar.
Where is Valdemar most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Valdemar is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 733 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
Is Valdemar a male or female name?
Valdemar is a male 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.
How common is the name Valdemar?
In Brazil, the national register counted 57,906 people named Valdemar in 2022, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
How common is Valdemar compared with other names?
In Brazil, Valdemar is the 516th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Valdemar” — the 516th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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