Valentini
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: an ancient people from Sardinia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valentini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 15K
- BRBrazil≈1 in 101K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
an ancient people from Sardinia
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Valentini is read(measured from records)
Valentini is one spelling over 5 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.
- Spanish36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valentini in Spanish.
- Italian18%
an ancient people from Sardinia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do nome latino Valentinus, derivado de Valens, Valentis
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Valenti
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- English18%
An ancient people of Sardinia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valentini in French.
- Portuguese11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valentini in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valentini 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #198 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Valentini | 173 |
| CN China | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Valentini | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,001 | 1 in 15K | 3K | Valentini | 78 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 294 | Valentini | 83 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 132 | Valentini | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 291 | 1 in 29K | 291 | Valentini | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 133 | 1 in 25K | 133 | Valentini | 20 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giovanni Valentinib. 1582ITItalian composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso
- Robert Valentineb. 1671GBnot in their usual nameBaroque and early Galante composer
- Giuseppe Valentinib. 1680FRItalian violinist, painter, poet and composer
- Lucia Valentini Terranib. 1946ITItalian lyric singer (1946-1998)
- Mariella Valentinib. 1959ITItalian actress and voice actress
- Federico Valentinib. 1982SMSammarinese footballer
- Nahuel Valentinib. 1988ARfootballer
- Enrico Valentinib. 1989ITGerman footballer
- Chloé Valentinib. 1995FRFrench handball player
- Nicolás Valentinib. 2001ARArgentine association football player
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(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7K | #3,740 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 291 | #4,487 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 237 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 206 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 174 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 174 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 168 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 167 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 156 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 133 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 132 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Valentini mean, and where does it come from?
- an ancient people from Sardinia Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Valentini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Valentini in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valentini.
- How common is the name Valentini?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 3,001 people named Valentini, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Valentini compared with other names?
- In Italy, Valentini is the 198th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Valentini?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valentiniThe 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, “Valentini” — the 198th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.