Valérie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valérie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Du latin Valeria, dérivé de valere « être fort, vigoureux »; fête le 28 avril (sainte Valérie).
- FRFrance≈1 in 439(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.5K
- RURussia≈1 in 289as Валерия
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 Valérie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #119 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 587 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 439 (inferred from the name graph)
≈490,000 named Валерия, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Valerie in US United States, FR France, Valeria in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, Валерия in RU Russia and Valerija in MD Moldova.
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)
Du latin Valeria, dérivé de valere « être fort, vigoureux »; fête le 28 avril (sainte Valérie).
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valérie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #67 | ≈490,000 est. | ≈1 in 289 | #39 | Валерия | 195 |
| US United States | #199 | 226,036 | 1 in 1.5K | 226K | Valerie | 587 |
| BR Brazil | #144 | 172,077as Valeria | 1 in 1.2K | 184K | Valeria | 190 |
| FR France | #42 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 439 | 253K | Valerie | 390 |
| AR Argentina | #135 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 468 | 3.8K | Valeria | 167 |
| MD Moldova | #172 | 18,862as Valeria | 1 in 178 | 19K | Valerija | 30 |
| HU Hungary | — | 17,903as Valéria | 1 in 546 | 18K | ולריה | 3 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); e-services.md — living population register; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). 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)
Valérie is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du latin Valerius, « fort, vigoureux »; fête de sainte Valérie le 9 décembre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin Valeria, féminin de Valerius; lié à valeo « être fort, vigoureux ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du latin Valeria, fémin. de Valerius, « forte, vigoureuse ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Valérie Lagrangeb. 1942FRFrench actress and singer
- Valérie Fourneyronb. 1959FRFrench politician
- Valérie Benguiguib. 1961FRFrench actress of stage and screen (1961–2013)
- Valérie Kapriskyb. 1962FRFrench actress
- Valérie Lemercierb. 1964FRFrench actress, comedian, singer, film director and screenwriter
- Valérie Trierweilerb. 1965FRFrench journalist
- Valérie Pécresseb. 1967FRFrench politician (born 1967)
- Valérie Bonnetonb. 1970FRFrench actress (born 1970)
- Valérie Donzellib. 1973FRFrench actress, film director and screenwriter
- Valerie Planteb. 1974CACanadian politician and mayor of Montreal
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 33 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 253K | #2,359 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1920 | 30 | #469 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2014 | 7 | — |
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 are other forms of the name Valérie?
- In the etymology graph, Valeria, Val and Valarie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Valérie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Du latin Valeria, dérivé de valere « être fort, vigoureux »; fête le 28 avril (sainte Valérie).
- Is Valérie a male or female name?
- Valérie 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 Valérie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 490 thousand people named Валерия in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Valérie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 226,036 people named Valérie in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Valérie compared with other names?
- In Russia, Valérie is the 67th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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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, “Valérie” — the 67th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.