Válter
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Walter
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/ˈbal.tɛɾ/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Válter is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 856(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 2K
- BRBrazil1 in 2.1K
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 Válter 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- 1 in 856 (inferred from the name graph)
244,847 named Walter, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Valter in US United States, BR Brazil, SE Sweden and 2 more.
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)a male given name, equivalent to English Walter
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Válter 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 244,847as Walter | 1 in 1.4K | 244K | Valter | 128 |
| BR Brazil | #307 | 99,956 | 1 in 2.1K | 131K | Valter | 176 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 38,055as Walter | 1 in 444 | 38K | — | 8 |
| IT Italy | #513 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 7 | Valter | 111 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11,922 | 1 in 856 | 12K | Valter | 25 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 8,880as Walter | 1 in 574 | 8.9K | — | — |
| PT Portugal | #199 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 2K | listed | Valter | 100 |
244,847 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling walter. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the pt-irn-lista-nomes 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).
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 131K | #369 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Válter mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Walter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Válter?
- In the etymology graph, Walter, Wally and Walt are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Válter?
- In Portuguese /ˈbal.tɛɾ/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Válter a male or female name?
- Válter is a male 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.
- In which country does Válter have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 245 thousand people named Walter, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Válter most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Válter is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 856 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Válter?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 99,956 people named Válter in 2022, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Válter compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Válter is the 199th most common given name of 19,352 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Válter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%A1lterThe 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, “Válter” — the 199th most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.