Valente
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: valiant; courageous
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valente is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 44K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 3.3K
- UYUruguay1 in 8.5K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
63,969 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
name Valente (L Valens, gen. Valentis, pres. part, of valere to be strong, healthy). The name was especially popular in medieval Italy, in honour of a 6th-cent. bishop of Verona. Vars.: Valat, Val(l)adier, Val(l)ayer; Balat, Albalat, Delbalat (Gascony). . Dim.: Valadon.
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.
How Valente is read(measured from records)
Valente is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese39%
valiant; courageous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valente in English.
- Spanish22%
Latín Valens, de ualeo 'ser fuerte, tener valor'; 'valiente, fuerte'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- French7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valente in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valente 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 | 63,969 | 1 in 3.3K | 64K | Valente | 7 |
| US United States | 7,580 | 1 in 44K | 7.6K | Valente | 344 |
| AR Argentina | 3,246 | 1 in 14K | 3.2K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 914 | 1 in 9.2K | 914 | Valente | 25 |
| ES Spain | 728 | 1 in 69K | 728 | Valente | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | 397 | 1 in 8.5K | 397 | — | 1 |
63,969 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Valente is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, name Valente (L Valens, gen. Valentis, pres. part, of valere to be strong, healthy). The name was especially popular in medieval Italy, in honour of a 6th-cent. bishop of Verona. Vars.: Valat, Val(l)adier, Val(l)ayer; Balat, Albalat, Delbalat (Gascony). . Dim.: Valadon.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Italian, Dal latino valens ‘forte, sano’.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Brasil, Portugal
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, forma italiana de Valens, Valentis
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Antonio Valenteb. 1520ITItalian composer
- Caterina Valenteb. 1931FRItalian-French multilingual singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress (1931–2024)
- Martin Valenteb. 1967FRFrench film director and screenwriter
- Nuno Valenteb. 1974PTPortuguese footballer
- Nicole Scherzingerb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and actress (born 1978)
- Catherynne M. Valenteb. 1979USAmerican writer (born 1979)
- Rodolfo Valenteb. 1993BRBrazilian actor
- Jennifer Valenteb. 1994USAmerican cyclist
- André Silvab. 1995PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1995)
- Luciano Valenteb. 2003NLDutch 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 64K | #378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.6K | #4,683 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.2K | #4,752 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.7K | #4,838 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.2K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 914 | #1,311 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 728 | #5,882 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 728 | #5,876 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 397 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Valente come from?
- name Valente (L Valens, gen. Valentis, pres. part, of valere to be strong, healthy). The name was especially popular in medieval Italy, in honour of a 6th-cent. bishop of Verona. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Valente mean?
- In Portuguese, valiant; courageous
- What are other forms of the name Valente?
- In the etymology graph, Valenza and Valens are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Valente have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 64 thousand people named Valente, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valente.
- Where is Valente most common?
- Valente is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Valente?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 63,969 people named Valente, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valenteThe 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, “Valente”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.