Valentīna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name of Latvian speakers
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valentīna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name.
- ITItaly≈1 in 336(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 45as Валентина
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 Valentīna 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)
- #38 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300,000 named Валентина, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Валентина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and Valentina in BR Brazil, MD Moldova, IT Italy.
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)
a female given name of Latvian speakers
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valentīna 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 | #24 | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 111 | #2 | Валентина | 213 |
| UA Ukraine | #11 | ≈980,000 est. | ≈1 in 45 | listed | Валентина | 93 |
| BR Brazil | #811 | 193,166 | 1 in 1.1K | 193K | Valentina | 143 |
| IT Italy | #372 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 336 | listed | Valentina | 149 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #20 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 191 | 6.3K | Валентина | 53 |
| MD Moldova | #331 | 58,036 | 1 in 58 | 58K | Valentina | 36 |
| LV Latvia | #974 | 12,111 | 1 in 155 | 12K | Valentīna | 43 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Valentīna 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Valentina Grizodubovab. 1909RUSoviet aviator (1909-1993)
- Valentina Ponomaryovab. 1933RUcosmonaut (1933–2023)
- Valentina Tereshkovab. 1937RURussian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born 1937)
- Valentina Telichkinab. 1945RUSoviet actress
- Valentina Tolkunovab. 1946RURussian singer (1946-2010)
- Valentina Matvienkob. 1949RURussian politician
- Valentina Yegorovab. 1964RURussian long-distance runner
- Valentina Lisitsab. 1970USUkrainian-American classical pianist
- Valentina Rubtsovab. 1977UAUkrainian-Russian actress
- Valentina Lodovinib. 1978ITItalian actress (born 1978)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 12K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 12K | #25 |
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 Valentīna mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name of Latvian speakers Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Valentīna a male or female name?
- Valentīna 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.
- What are other forms of the name Valentīna?
- In the etymology graph, Tina, Valentyna and Inja are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Valentīna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Валентина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Valentīna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Valentīna is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 58 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Valentīna?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 193,166 people named Valentīna in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Valentīna compared with other names?
- In Russia, Valentīna is the 24th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Valentīna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valent%C4%ABnaThe 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, “Valentīna” — the 24th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.