Valdur
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, variant of Voldemar or Valter
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valdur is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 5K
- SESweden1 in 510K
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈880 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Val'Dur in LV Latvia.
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)
a male given name, variant of Voldemar or Valter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valdur 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.
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: the ee-stat-nimed register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Valdur 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 Faroese, factor
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)
- Valdur Toherab. 1891EEEstonian actor, make-up artist (1891-1963)
- Valdur Jürissaarb. 1910EEEstonian military personnel and memoirist (1910-1956)
- Valdur Himbekb. 1925EEEstonian actor and film director (1925-1991)
- Valdur Ohakasb. 1925EEEstonian painter (1925-1998)
- Valdur Rootsb. 1936EEEstonian pianist and music teacher (1936-2011)
- Aavo-Valdur Mikelsaarb. 1941EEEstonian medical scientist and geneticist (born 1941)
- Valdur Saksb. 1943EEEstonian physician and biochemist (born 1943)
- Valdur Lahtveeb. 1958EEEstonian environmental specialist and politician (born 1958)
- Valdur Ohmannb. 1958EEEstonian historian and archivist (born 1958)
- Valdur Mikitab. 1970EEEstonian writer and semiotician (born 1970)
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 467 | #306 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 102 | #3,001 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 49 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 49 | #67,613 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #19,875 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #24,652 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 10 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Valdur mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, variant of Voldemar or Valter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Valdur a male or female name?
- Valdur 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 Valdur?
- In the etymology graph, Voldemar is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Valdur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 883 people named Valdur in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled val'dur.
- How common is the name Valdur?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 49 people named Valdur in 2022, about 1 in 4.3 million residents.
- How common is Valdur compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Valdur is the 377th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Valdur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valdurThe 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, “Valdur” — the 377th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.