Valentina
About 65,166 American babies have been named Valentina since 1897, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 35th. About 64,000 Valentinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Valentina boys named Valentina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 65,166
- Estimated living today
- 64,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 35th
- Rank in 2025
- 35th
- First recorded
- 1897
- Girls / boys
- 65,147 / 19
How old the living Valentinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 65,166 babies given the name since 1897, about 64,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 54,000 of them are children and 720 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin, Italian, Spanish
From Spanish, Italian, and Latin Valentīna, feminine forms of Spanish and Italian Valentino, and Latin Valentīnus<id:cognomen>.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Valentinas
- Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937)Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space
- Valentina Matviyenko (born 1949)Russian politician
- Valentina Monetta (born 1975)Sammarinese singer
- Valentina Cortese (1923–2019)Italian actress
- Valentina Vezzali (born 1974)Italian fencer and politician
- Valentina Nappi (born 1990)Italian pornographic actress
- Valentina Lisitsa (born 1970)Ukrainian-American classical pianist
- Valentina Tolkunova (1946–2010)Russian singer
People named Valentina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Valentina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Valentina is most concentrated in Florida (4.1×), Nevada (3.2×), Arizona (2.6×), California (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Valentina peaked:
Valentina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Valentina | 38,689 | — |
| Spain girls | Valentina | 21,259 | 17th |
| Austria girls | Valentina | 9,909 | 10th |
| France girls | Valentina +3 spellings | 6,645 | 83rd |
| Switzerland girls | Valentina | 3,654 | 27th |
| England and Wales girls | Valentina | 3,138 | 233rd |
| Belgium girls | Valentina | 1,787 | 66th |
| Norway girls | Valentina | 654 | 221st |
| Poland girls | Valentina | 251 birth registrations | 279th |
| Scotland girls | Valentina | 177 | 247th |
| Italy boys | Valentina | 174 | — |
| Ireland girls | Valentina | 167 | 237th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Valentina | 34 | 229th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Valentina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Valentina | 2,731 | 0.219% | 21st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Valentina | 615 | 0.141% | 24th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Valentina | 284 | 0.436% | 8th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Valentina | 24 | 0.646% | 1st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Valentina is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.44% of children were given it – 274 of them.
Valentina: rank by region
In 2025, Valentina was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Valentina | 181 | 31 |
| Wallonia | Valentina | 44 | 59 |
| Brussels | Valentina | 107 | 10 |
In 2024, Valentina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canarias | Valentina | 4 | 74 |
In 2018, Valentina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Valentina | 9 | 2 |
In 2025, Valentina was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Valentina | 234 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Valentina | 326 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Valentina | 248 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Valentina appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (16th), Province of Liège (55th), Province of Namur (60th), Brussels-Capital Region (107th), Province of West Flanders (120th), Province of East Flanders (154th), Province of Flemish Brabant (193rd) and Province of Antwerp (276th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Valentina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 258 | 64th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Valentina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Valentina | 718 | 2,229 |
| Finland girls | Valentina | 616 | 1,414 |
| the Netherlands boys | Valentina | — | 12 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Valentina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 39,666 women called Valentina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Valentina | 1,294 | 2.335 | 56 |
| Palmas, Las | Valentina | 1,236 | 2.095 | 66 |
| Málaga | Valentina | 1,762 | 1.923 | 92 |
| Segovia | Valentina | 151 | 1.915 | 107 |
| Cádiz | Valentina | 1,223 | 1.909 | 107 |
| Toledo | Valentina | 676 | 1.800 | 118 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Valentina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.