Valér

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Valér is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Valeri.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 3.2M(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 159K
  • CZCzechia1 in 181K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

918 people

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Valer in US United States, ES Spain, CH Switzerland.

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)

Variante di Valeri

Sources 1

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Valér 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.

Where Valér is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil9181 in 231K918——
ES Spain3141 in 159K314Valer19
US United States1041 in 3.2M149Valer118
CZ Czechia591 in 181K59—2
AR Argentina471 in 968K47——
CH Switzerland311 in 271K31Valer8
NO Norway231 in 238K23—1

918 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Valér is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Brazil, Spain, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Armenian

    Also written Valer, Վալեր, ვალერ, Våler

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Våler, Valer

  • Turkish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Also written Valer

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Valér Maczky, b. 1847Valér Ferenczy, b. 1885Valér Mende, b. 1886Valér Fricke, b. 1900Valér Barač, b. 1909Valér Švec, b. 1935Valér Kováč, b. 1936Valér Krutti, b. 1966János Kővári, b. 1971Valér Kapacina, b. 1993

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Valér
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—10#5,455

Reference works 2

  • 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

What does the name Valér mean, and where does it come from?
Variante di Valeri Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani.
Is Valér a male or female name?
Valér 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 Valér have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 918 people named Valér, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Valér most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Valér is densest in Spain — about 1 in 159 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Valér?
In Brazil, the national register counted 918 people named Valér, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/val%C3%A9r

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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, “Valér”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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