Valériane
given name · Latin script
Meaning: valerian (a plant, Valeriana officinalis)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Statbel, 1996
Valériane is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 86K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 183K
- PLPoland1 in 617K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Valeriane in FR France, BR Brazil, BE Belgium and 1 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)valerian (a plant, Valeriana officinalis)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Valériane 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)Valériane is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, La valériane dite officinale porte plus prosaïquement le nom d’herbe à chats parce que ceux-ci recherchent son odeur. On a donné à cette plante un nom qui rappelle Valeria, partie de l’ancienne Pannonie (la Hongrie actuelle).
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
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)- Valériane de Villeneuveb. 1959FRFrench actress
- Valériane Leblondb. 1985FRartist based in Wales (1985- )
- Valériane Fichotb. 1988FRFrench judoka
- Valériane Mêmeb. 1992FRFrench association football player
- Valériane Ayayib. 1994FRFrench basketball player (born 1994)
- Valeriane LeroyFRresearcher
- Valériane Champagne St-ArnaudCAresearcher and university professor
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1995 | 7 | #869 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1996 | 5 | #1,116 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Valériane mean, and where does it come from?
- valerian (a plant, Valeriana officinalis) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Valériane?
- In the etymology graph, Valeriana is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Valériane a male or female name?
- Valériane is a female 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 Valériane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 785 people named Valériane in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valeriane.
- How common is the name Valériane?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 100 people named Valériane in 2022, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Valériane?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/val%C3%A9rianeThe 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, “Valériane”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.