Valeria
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: first/third-person singular conditional of valer
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/baleɾja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Valeria is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 468(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2K
- RURussia≈1 in 289as Валерия
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 Valeria itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #119 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 587 (measured from records)
- 1 in 178 (inferred from the name graph)
≈490,000 named Валерия, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Valerie in US United States, FR France, Валерия in RU Russia, Valerija in MD Moldova and ולריה in HU Hungary.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin, feminine of Valerius; strong, healthy
Sources 1
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Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Valeria is read(measured from records)
Valeria is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish62%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valeria in Spanish.
- Portuguese20%
first/third-person singular conditional of valer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.5%
Latin, feminine of Valerius; strong, healthy
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Valeria 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 | #67 | ≈490,000 est. | ≈1 in 289 | #39 | Валерия | 195 |
| US United States | #199 | 226,036as Valerie | 1 in 1.5K | 226K | Valerie | 587 |
| BR Brazil | #144 | 172,077 | 1 in 1.2K | 184K | Valeria | 190 |
| FR France | #42 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 439 | 253K | Valerie | 390 |
| AR Argentina | #135 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 468 | 3.8K | Valeria | 167 |
| MD Moldova | #172 | 18,862 | 1 in 178 | 19K | Valerija | 30 |
| HU Hungary | — | 17,903 | 1 in 546 | 18K | ולריה | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); e-services.md — living population register; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). 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)
Valeria is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Valeria är ett latinskt namn, en femininform av Valerius, ett romerskt släktnamn troligen bildat till valens ’stark, frisk’ (jfr → Valentin). Namnet bars av ett helgon i Frankrike på 200-talet. Valerie (Valérie) är en fransk och engelsk form.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Féminin de Valerius, du latin valere, « être forte, saine ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Sana
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latin, Name of a patrician Roman gens.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austriab. 1868HUAustrian archduchess (1868-1924)
- Valeria Cavallib. 1959ITItalian actress and model (born 1959)
- Valeria Bruni-Tedeschib. 1964ITItalian and French actress, director, screenwriter
- Valeria Golinob. 1966ITItalian model, actress and film director
- Valeria Bertuccellib. 1970ARArgentine actress
- Lera Kudryavtsevab. 1971RUnot in their usual nameactor, singer and TV personality
- Valeria Mazzab. 1972ARArgentine model
- Lera Auerbachb. 1973USnot in their usual nameSoviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
- Valeria Luisellib. 1983MXMexican writer
- Valeria Kozlovab. 1988RURussian singer and drummer
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)
Attested in 101 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 184K | #281 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 172K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 171K | #192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 63K | #777 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 19K | #65 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 750 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 670 | #2,391 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 643 | #192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 136 | #777 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 130 | #656 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Valeria come from?
- Latin, feminine of Valerius; strong, healthy Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Valeria a male or female name?
- Valeria 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 are other forms of the name Valeria?
- In the etymology graph, Valerie, Valérie and Val are forms of the same name in other languages; Valeska is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Valeria have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 490 thousand people named Валерия in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Valeria most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Valeria is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 178 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Valeria mean?
- In Portuguese, first/third-person singular conditional of valer
- How do you pronounce Valeria?
- A machine transcription gives /baleɾja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Valeria?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 172,077 people named Valeria in 2022, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Valeria compared with other names?
- In Russia, Valeria is the 67th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valeriaThe 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, “Valeria” — the 67th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.