Valens
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Roman cognomen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/balens/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Valens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 368K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 562K
- FRFrance≈1 in 586K
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 368K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a Roman cognomen
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valens 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 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 5 | Valens | 19 |
| ES Spain | 136 | 1 in 368K | 136 | Valens | 28 |
| FR France | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 586K | 9 | — | 1 |
| CO Colombia | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 562K | 1 | Valens | 25 |
| AR Argentina | 43 | 1 in 1.1M | 43 | Valens | 24 |
| NL Netherlands | 25 | 1 in 691K | 25 | — | — |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the co-datosgov-candidates register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Valens is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, /. Roman emperor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, from Latin valens 'strong, healthy'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Latin, strong, vigorous, healthy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, valence, valency
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, A valence.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- E. G. Valensb. 1920USUS journalist, documentary film maker and author (1920-1992)
- Ritchie Valensb. 1941USAmerican musician (1941–1959)
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 136 | #22,101 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 136 | #22,047 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 43 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 25 | #44,995 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Valens?
- A machine transcription gives /balens/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Valens mean, and where does it come from?
- a Roman cognomen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Valens?
- In the etymology graph, Valente is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Valens?
- In Spain, the national register counted 136 people named Valens, about 1 in 368 thousand residents.
- In which country does Valens have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 146 people named Valens in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valens.
- Where is Valens most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Valens is densest in Spain — about 1 in 368 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Valens?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valensThe 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, “Valens”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.