Valerijs

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вале́рий (Valérij)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Valerijs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 400(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 39K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 50K

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.

Latvia (measured from records)

4,701 people

Sources
68 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 400 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вале́рий (Valérij)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Valerijs 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.

Where Valerijs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#1534,7011 in 4004.7KValerijs68
GB United Kingdom—≈75 est.≈1 in 877K—Valerijs34
SE Sweden—301 in 340K30Valerijs5
NO Norway—≈27 est.≈1 in 200K172Valerijs10
EE Estonia—≈24 est.≈1 in 50K27Valerijs8
IS Iceland—91 in 39K9——
CY Cyprus—≈5 est.≈1 in 273K—Valerijs3

4,701 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling valērijs. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-stat-nimed register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Valerijs is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, United Kingdom, Germany, United States

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Valērijs

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Latvia

    Also written Valērijs

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Latvia

    Also written Valērijs

  • Slovenian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Languages: Slovenian, Croatian

    Also written Valērijs

  • Lithuanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Lithuania

    Also written Valērijs

  • Slovak given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Valérijs, Valērijs

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Valērijs

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Valerijs 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, Vīrieša 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Valerijs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—3.1K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—3.1K#177
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—172#5,329
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—30#18,966
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—27#1,281
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202023—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201822—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201920—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201720—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201618—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201516—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201412—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Valerijs mean, and where does it come from?
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вале́рий (Valérij) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Valerijs a male or female name?
Valerijs 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 Valerijs?
In the etymology graph, Valērija is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Valerijs have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Valerijs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valerijs.
Where is Valerijs most common?
Valerijs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 400 people carrying it.
How common is the name Valerijs?
In Latvia, the national register counted 4,701 people named Valerijs, about 1 in 400 residents.
How common is Valerijs compared with other names?
In Latvia, Valerijs is the 153rd most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.

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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, “Valerijs” — the 153rd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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