Valová
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/valovaː/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated
Valová is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Valová is also written Валова in Cyrillic.
- CZCzechia1 in 5.6K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 8.6K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 130K
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 Valová 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 named Валова, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Valová in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Валова in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and Valova in BG Bulgaria.
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.
How to pronounce Valová
- Czech:/valovaː/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Slovak:/valova/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Valová is found
(measured from records)Valová 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.
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)- Irma Valováb. 1965CZCzech basketball player (born 1965)
- Vladimíra Valováb. 1978CZCzech writer
- Lenka Valováb. 1983CZCzech cyclist
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Valová?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /valovaː/; in Slovak /valova/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Valová?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Валова in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Czechia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Valová most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Valová is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 5.6 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Valová?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,911 people named Valová, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Valová compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Valová is the 764th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Valová?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valov%C3%A1The 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, “Valová” — the 764th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.