Valentijn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Valentine (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ˈvaːlənˌtɛi̯n/(recorded in a dictionary) Dutch · from Wiktionary
Valentijn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 6,873 people, counted by the Meertens NVB.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 67Kfew records
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
6,873 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Valentijn
- Dutch:/ˈvaːlənˌtɛi̯n/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Valentine
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Valentijn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 6,873 | 1 in 2.5K | 6.8K | Valentijn | 89 |
| BE Belgium | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 45 | Valentijn | 44 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Valentijn | 6 |
| FR France | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Valentijn | 27 |
| US United States | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 31M | listed | Valentijn | 41 |
| AT Austria | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 2 | — | 4 |
6,873 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Valentijn Dhaenensb. 1976BEBelgian actor
- Valentijn Overeemb. 1976NLDutch martial artist
- Valentijn de Hinghb. 1990NLDutch model
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Valentijn mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Valentine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Valentijn a male or female name?
- Valentijn is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- What are other forms of the name Valentijn?
- In the etymology graph, Valentin, Valentino and Val are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Valentijn?
- In Dutch /ˈvaːlənˌtɛi̯n/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Valentijn?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Valentijn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valentijn. After it come Belgium, Switzerland, France and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Valentijn most common?
- Valentijn is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Valentijn?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6,873 people named Valentijn, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Valentijn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valentijnThe 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, “Valentijn” — ranked 301st in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.