Valiente
surname · Latin script
Meaning: brave, courageous, fearless
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baljente/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Valiente is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 1.5K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
brave, courageous, fearless
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valiente 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #787 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Valiente | 60 |
| ES Spain | #459 | 10,458 | 1 in 4.8K | 10K | Valiente | 152 |
| AR Argentina | #581 | 8,383 | 1 in 5.4K | 8.4K | Valiente | 78 |
| PY Paraguay | #172 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Valiente | 40 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Valiente | 10 |
| UY Uruguay | #274 | 2,221 | 1 in 1.5K | 2.2K | Valiente | 31 |
| SV El Salvador | #323 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Valiente | 46 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Valiente 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 Italian, variante regional de Valente
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Asturian, brave (strong in the face of fear)
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)
- José María de Acháb. 1810BOnot in their usual namePresident of Bolivia (1810-1868)
- José María Valiente Sorianob. 1900ESSpanish politician
- Doreen Valienteb. 1922GBEnglish writer (1922–1999)
- Antoñita Morenob. 1930ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer and actress
- Francisco Tomás y Valienteb. 1932ESSpanish jurist (1932-1996)
- Bruno Valienteb. 1964FRFrench politician
- Mauricio Valienteb. 1966ESSpanish politician
- Juan Sáenz Valienteb. 1981ARArgentinian comics animator, producer, writer and illustrator
- Paula Palomaresb. 1984ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1984)
- Kike Salassb. 2002ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 10K | #522 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10K | #522 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 8.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.2K | — |
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)
- 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 Valiente mean, and where does it come from?
- brave, courageous, fearless Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Valiente?
- In the etymology graph, Valor and Valer are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Valiente?
- A machine transcription gives /baljente/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Valiente have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Valiente in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valiente.
- How common is the name Valiente?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10,458 people named Valiente, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Valiente compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Valiente is the 787th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valienteThe 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, “Valiente” — the 787th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.