Valdis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valdis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 333(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 985
- EEEstonia≈1 in 16K
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)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 333 (inferred from the name graph)
5,644 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ezers Valkas novada Ērģemes pagastā, Turnas ezeru grupā, platība - 24,8 ha, garums - 900 m, lielākais platums - 350 m, vidējais dziļums - 6,3 m, lielākais dziļums - 14,1 m; Vadžu ezers; Valža ezers; Valžezers; Valžu ezers
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valdis 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.
5,644 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the lt-vlkk-vardai 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Valdis 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 Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In German, männl. Vom. lettischer Herkunft (zu lett. valdft »herrschen«: »Herrscher«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Valdis Muižnieksb. 1935RUbasketball player (1935–2013)
- Valdis Liepiņšb. 1939LVLatvian politician and economist
- Valdis Birkavsb. 1942LVLatvian politician (born 1942)
- Valdís Óskarsdóttirb. 1950ISIcelandic film editor, film director and screenwriter
- Valdis Zatlersb. 1955LVPresident of Latvia
- Valdis Valtersb. 1957LVLatvian basketball player (born 1957)
- Valdis Muktupāvelsb. 1958LVLatvian composer and ethnomusicologist (born 1958)
- Ģirts Valdis Kristovskisb. 1962LVLatvian politician (born 1962)
- Valdis Pelšsb. 1967LVRussian actor
- Valdis Dombrovskisb. 1971LV11th Prime Minister of Latvia
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 5.6K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 5.6K | #85 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 249 | #32,025 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 134 | #7,004 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 104 | #676 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 45 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 45 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 44 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 44 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 44 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 44 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 42 | — |
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
- Is Valdis a male or female name?
- Valdis is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Valdis?
- In the etymology graph, Vladimir, Waldemar and Valdemar are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Voldemārs and Visvaldis.
- In which country does Valdis have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Valdis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valdis.
- Where is Valdis most common?
- Valdis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 333 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Valdis?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 5,644 people named Valdis, about 1 in 333 residents.
- How common is Valdis compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Valdis is the 43rd most common given name of 11,601 given names 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/valdisThe 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, “Valdis” — the 43rd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.