Valentino
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin. See ) Valentine in main dictionary
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valentino is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- UYUruguay≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 2.3K
- ITItaly≈1 in 3K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle EnglishLatyn(inferred from the name graph)via Latin
- Old Frenchlatin(inferred from the name graph)via Latin
- Latinlatīnus(inferred from the name graph)via Latin
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Latin. See ) Valentine in main dictionary. Feminine form: Valentina.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Valentino is read(measured from records)
Valentino is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish64%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valentino in Spanish.
- English14%
From the Italian male personal name Valentino, literally ‘little Valente’, from Latin Valens.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Rudolph, US actor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Italian5.7%
Dal latino Valentinus, da valens ‘forte, sano’.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
forma italiana de Valentinus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valentino 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #460 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 170 | Valentino | 170 |
| AR Argentina | #381 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 5.2K | Valentino | 82 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Valentino | 39 |
| US United States | — | 7,031 | 1 in 47K | 6.9K | Valentino | 210 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,928 | 1 in 2.2K | 1.9K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | #140 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Valentino | 27 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,026 | 1 in 9.9K | 1K | — | 14 |
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 — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Valentino is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Latin. See ) Valentine in main dictionary. Feminine form: Valentina.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Italien de Valentinus, « fort, sain ». Fête: 14 février.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Liberaceb. 1919USnot in their usual nameAmerican pianist (1919–1987)
- Valentino Mazzolab. 1919ITItalian footballer (1919–1949)
- Valentino Garavanib. 1932ITItalian fashion designer (1932–2026)
- Valentino Gasparellab. 1935ITItalian track cyclist, 1956 Olympic gold team pursuit
- Valentino Piconeb. 1971ITItalian actor and television presenter
- Valentino Lanusb. 1975MXMexican actor
- Valentino Kanzyanib. 1975SISlovenian musician
- Valentino Rossib. 1979ITItalian motorcycle racer
- Valentino Lazarob. 1996ATAustrian association football player
- Tino Livramentob. 2002GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 2002)
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 99 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.9K | #3,123 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 5.2K | #14 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 2.3K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 2.3K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.9K | #377 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1K | #1,661 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 710 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 383 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 170 | #123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 164 | #3,123 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Valentino?
- In the etymology graph, Valentin, Val and Valentyn are forms of the same name in other languages; Tino is a recorded short or pet form.
- Where does the name Valentino come from?
- From Latin. See ) Valentine in main dictionary. Feminine form: Valentina. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Valentino a male or female name?
- Valentino 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 Valentino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Valentino in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valentino.
- How common is the name Valentino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,031 people named Valentino in 2020, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Valentino compared with other names?
- In Italy, Valentino is the 460th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Valentino mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Latin. See ) Valentine in main dictionary.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valentinoThe 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
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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, “Valentino” — the 460th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.