Valer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to be worth
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 7.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 231K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 83K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
to be worth
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #960 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Valer | 61 |
| BR Brazil | — | 918 | 1 in 231K | 918 | Valer | 44 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 295K | — | Valer | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 314 | 1 in 159K | 314 | Valer | 56 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 334K | listed | Valer | 9 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Valer | 11 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 59 | 1 in 181K | 59 | — | — |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Valer 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 Portuguese, to be worth, valid or acceptable
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, redução dialetal set. de Valerio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In fro, to drop (to allow to fall)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, to be useful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crs, value, worth
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)
- Wilfredo Álvarez Valerb. 1936PEPeruvian politician
- Francisco González Valerb. 1939ESCatholic bishop (1939–2024)
- Tany Valer Loperab. 1942PEPeruvian politician
- Nonato Rufino Chuquimamani Valerb. 1946PEPeruvian teacher, educationalist
- Juan Valerb. 1958PEPeruvian military personnel (1958-1997)
- Héctor Valerb. 1959PEPeruvian politician
- Valeria Valerb. 1985PEPeruvian politician
- Katherine Barreto ValerPEPeruvian dentist
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 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 918 | #10,047 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 314 | #11,606 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 314 | #11,600 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 59 | #25,718 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 59 | #9,828 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Valer mean, and where does it come from?
- to be worth Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Valer?
- In the etymology graph, Valiente and Valor are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Valer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Valer in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valer.
- How common is the name Valer?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 918 people named Valer, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
- How common is Valer compared with other names?
- In Peru, Valer is the 960th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valerThe 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, “Valer” — the 960th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.