Valdo

given name · Latin script

Meaning: derivado do nome germânico Waldo; também redução de Osvaldo ou Valdemaro

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

/valðu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 22K(measured from records)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 5.2K
  • MZMozambique≈1 in 5.7K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

9,416 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
100 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ValdoLatin(measured from records)
ВалдоCyrillic(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)

recorded in Portuguese

derivado do nome germânico Waldo; também redução de Osvaldo ou Valdemaro

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Valdo 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 Valdo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—9,4161 in 22K11KValdo100
MZ Mozambique#349≈5,300 est.≈1 in 5.7K—Valdo9
CM Cameroon—≈2,900 est.≈1 in 9.6K—Valdo5
AO Angola—≈670 est.≈1 in 48K1Valdo10
EE Estonia—≈240 est.≈1 in 5.2K373Valdo6

9,416 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); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the ee-stat-nimed 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Valdo is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Váldó, Valdö

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Argentina, Peru

    Also written Valdó, Väldö, Valdö, Vàldô, Valdô

  • Estonian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, United States, Cameroon, Finland

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Väldô

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

    Also written Vāldō

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Valdó

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Estonia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Valdó

48 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)

Valdo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Potere

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Estonian, a male given name, variant of Voldemar or Valter

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, a male given name, comparable to English Waldo

    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)

1850190019502000Valdo Barbey, b. 1880Valdo Magnani, b. 1912Valdo Pant, b. 1928Valdo Williams, b. 1929Valdo Spini, b. 1946Valdo Randpere, b. 1958Valdo, b. 1964Valmiro Lopes Rocha, b. 1981Valdo Alhinho, b. 1988Valdo Zeqaj, b. 1994

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)

InformalOlá Valdo,Hi Valdo, (English)

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 41 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Valdo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—11K#2,004
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—11K#688
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20229.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20209.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—9.4K#1,800
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20109.3K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20009K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19908.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19806.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19704.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)19602.3K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)19702.2K—

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

How do you pronounce Valdo?
A machine transcription gives /valðu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Valdo mean?
Recorded meaning: derivado do nome germânico Waldo; também redução de Osvaldo ou Valdemaro
Is Valdo a male or female name?
Valdo 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.
In which country does Valdo have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named Valdo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valdo.
How common is the name Valdo?
In Brazil, the national register counted 9,416 people named Valdo in 2022, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
How common is Valdo compared with other names?
In Mozambique, Valdo is the 349th most common given name of 1,034 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, “Valdo” — the 349th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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