Valencia
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valencia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: places so called, principally the major city in E Spain, which was formerly the capital of an independent Moorish kingdom of the same name.
- COColombia≈1 in 281(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 295
- PEPeru≈1 in 731
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 454 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 281 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, 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 Chipre in US United States, PH Philippines.
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)
places so called, principally the major city in E Spain, which was formerly the capital of an independent Moorish kingdom of the same name. The city was named by the Romans as Valentia, a deriv. of the personal name Valens (see Valente). Var : Vails
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valencia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 281 | 110 | Valencia | 210 |
| PH Philippines | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Chipre | 137 |
| CN China | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Valencia | 17 |
| US United States | 70,000 | 1 in 4.8K | 70K | Chipre | 454 |
| EC Ecuador | 57,358 | 1 in 295 | 57K | Valencia | 99 |
| PE Peru | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 731 | — | Valencia | 116 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 833 | — | Valencia | 62 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates 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)
Valencia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Valencia (the capital city of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Amsterdam, Curaçao, Jamaica, London, Ciudad de Mexico, Panama, Lisboa, Lima; Valencia, España
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, region, Spain
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, county, NM
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Du latin Valentia, « force, vigueur ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Mariano Melgarejob. 1820BOnot in their usual namePresident of Bolivia (1820-1871)
- Guillermo León Valenciab. 1909COPresident of Colombia (1909-1971)
- Fernando Villavicenciob. 1963ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian politician (1963–2023)
- Freddy Rincónb. 1966COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer (1966–2022)
- Adolfo Valenciab. 1968COColombian footballer
- Valentín Elizaldeb. 1979MXnot in their usual nameMexican singer (1979–2007)
- Antonio Valenciab. 1985ECportughez association football player
- Cristian Zapatab. 1986COnot in their usual nameColombian association football player
- Jackson Martínezb. 1986COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer (born 1986)
- Enner Valenciab. 1989ECEcuadorian association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 70K | #475 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 67K | #485 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 57K | #56 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 50K | #616 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 669 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 110 | #26 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Valencia come from?
- places so called, principally the major city in E Spain, which was formerly the capital of an independent Moorish kingdom of the same name. The city was named by the Romans as Valentia, a deriv. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Valencia mean?
- Recorded meaning: places so called, principally the major city in E Spain, which was formerly the capital of an independent Moorish kingdom of the same name.
- In which country does Valencia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 175 thousand people named Valencia in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valencia.
- How common is the name Valencia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 70,000 people named Valencia in 2010, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valenciaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Valencia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.