Valdir
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/valðiɾ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Valdir is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 7.9Kfew records
- PTPortugal≈1 in 22Kfew records
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 Valdir 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
155,430 people, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Waldir in PE Peru, PY Paraguay, CO Colombia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Valdir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #163 | 155,430 | 1 in 1.4K | 188K | Valdir | 163 |
| AO Angola | #511 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Valdir | 20 |
| PE Peru | #949 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Waldir | 48 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Waldir | 43 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Valdir | 37 |
| PY Paraguay | #892 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Waldir | 11 |
155,430 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the pt-irn-lista-nomes 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Waldir Azevedob. 1923BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian musician (1923–1980)
- Valdir Pereirab. 1928BRBrazilian footballer (1928-2001)
- Valdir Joaquim de Moraesb. 1931BRBrazilian footballer and manager (1931-2020)
- Valdir Espinosab. 1947BRBrazilian association football player and manager (1947–2020)
- Waldir Peresb. 1951BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer and manager (1951-2017)
- Valdir Cruzb. 1954BRBrazilian photographer (born 1954)
- Valdir Rauppb. 1955BRBrazilian politician
- Valdir Ganzerb. 1955BRBrazilian politician
- Valdir Beneditob. 1965BRBrazilian association football player
- Valdir Bigodeb. 1972BRBrazilian footballer
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 188K | #276 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 187K | #80 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 155K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 155K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 155K | #215 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 154K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 152K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 146K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 128K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 90K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 50K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 40K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- How do you pronounce Valdir?
- In Portuguese /valðiɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Valdir a male or female name?
- Valdir is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (IBGE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Uruguay (INE Uruguay).
- In which country does Valdir have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 155 thousand people named Valdir, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valdir.
- Where is Valdir most common?
- Valdir is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Valdir?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 155,430 people named Valdir in 2022, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Valdir compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Valdir is the 163rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Valdir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valdirThe 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, “Valdir” — the 163rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.