Valentina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Valentine (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 63 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/ba.lẽn̪ˈt̪i.na/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Valentina is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name. Valentina is also written Валентина in Cyrillic, Βαλεντινα in Greek and ვალენთინა in Georgian.
- MDMoldova1 in 58(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 150
- LVLatvia1 in 155
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Valentina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #38 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300,000 named Валентина, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Valentina in other scripts: Cyrillic, Greek, Georgian and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Валентина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and Valentīna in LV Latvia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Valentina
- Spanish:/ba.lẽn̪ˈt̪i.na/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Italian:/va.lenˈti.na/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Russian:/vəlʲɪnʲˈtʲinə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Valentine.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Valentina is read
(measured from records)Valentina is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish64%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valentina in Spanish.
- English6.5%
A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Valentine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Strong, healthy
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- Italian6.1%
forma feminina de Valentino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Russian5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valentina in Russian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Valentina, 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)Valentina 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #24 | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 108 | register #2 | Валентина | 213 |
| UA Ukraine | #11 | ≈850,000 est. | ≈1 in 45 | listed | Валентина | 93 |
| IT Italy | #372 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 150 | listed | Valentina | 149 |
| BR Brazil | #811 | 193,166 | 1 in 1.1K | 193K | Valentina | 143 |
| CO Colombia | #57 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 372 | 1 | Valentina | 180 |
| MD Moldova | #331 | 58,036 | 1 in 58 | 58K | Valentina | 36 |
| LV Latvia | #974 | 12,111 | 1 in 155 | 12K | Valentīna | 43 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Valentina is also recorded in 3 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 French, Féminin de Valentinus, du latin valens, « forte, saine ». Fête: 14 février.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Valentina Tereshkovab. 1937RURussian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born 1937)
- Valentina Matvienkob. 1949RURussian politician
- Valentina Nappib. 1990ITItalian pornographic actress
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)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)130 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 63 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people named Valentina?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Валентина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Italy, Brazil and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Valentina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Valentina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 58 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Valentina a male or female name?
- Valentina is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022), Romania (DEPABD, 2022), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE), among others.
- What does the name Valentina mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Valentine. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Valentina?
- In the etymology graph, Tina, Valentyna and Ina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Valentina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 193,166 people named Valentina in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Valentina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Valentina is the 24th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Valentina?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ba.lẽn̪ˈt̪i.na/ (Wiktionary); in Italian /va.lenˈti.na/ (Wiktionary); in Russian /vəlʲɪnʲˈtʲinə/ (Wiktionary).
What do you want to know about Valentina?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valentinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Valentina” — the 24th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.