Valentinus
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Latin from Valens < valere "be healthy, strong"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vˌaləntˈinus/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Valentinus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- NANamibia≈1 in 31K
- NLNetherlands1 in 59K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Latin valens/valentinus 'strong, healthy'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
How Valentinus is read(measured from records)
Valentinus 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.
- Indonesian73%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valentinus in Indonesian.
- German8.6%
Latin from Valens < valere "be healthy, strong"
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
von Rufname Valentinus; patronymischer Familienname
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- English7.9%
A gnostic theologian living in Egypt and Rome (c.100 - c.153).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Valentinus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 55K | listed | Valentinus | 81 |
| NL Netherlands | 295 | 1 in 59K | 287 | — | — |
| NA Namibia | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 1 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Valentinus | 9 |
| US United States | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Valentinus | 11 |
| SG Singapore | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Valentinus | 4 |
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: the id-github-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)
Valentinus 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.
In Latin, from Latin valens/valentinus 'strong, healthy'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Latin, Valencian
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)
- Valentinusb. 175IT3rd-century Roman Christian saint (175–273)
- Valentin de Strasbourgb. 500not in their usual nameCatholic bishop of Strasbourg
- Georg Görzb. 1746DEnot in their usual name(1746-1804)
- Valentinus Paquayb. 1828BEFriar Minor (1828–1905)
- Emil Vettb. 1843DKnot in their usual nameDanish merchant and judge (1843-1911)
- Valentinus Saengb. 1969IDCatholic bishop from Indonesia
- ValentinusRoman usurper against Emperor Valentinian I
- Valentine of HadrumetumTNnot in their usual nameabbot from Hadrumetum and correspondent of Augustine, Evodius, and Januarian
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 287 | #2,308 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 62 | #10,485 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 8 | #25,660 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #23 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #28 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Valentinus come from?
- from Latin valens/valentinus 'strong, healthy' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Valentinus?
- A machine transcription gives /vˌaləntˈinus/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- What does the name Valentinus mean?
- In German, Latin from Valens < valere "be healthy, strong"
- Is Valentinus a male or female name?
- Valentinus 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.
- What are other forms of the name Valentinus?
- In the etymology graph, Valentin, Valentino and Val are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Valentinus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Valentinus in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valentinus.
- How common is the name Valentinus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 295 people named Valentinus, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Valentinus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valentinusThe 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, “Valentinus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.