Valerianus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Valerius; name of a bishop of Trier
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valerianus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
- MDMoldova1 in 2.7Kas Valerian
- FIFinland1 in 61Kas Valerian
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Valerianus itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Moldova (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
1,234 named Valerian
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
from Valerius; name of a bishop of Trier
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valerianus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | 1,234as Valerian | 1 in 2.7K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| US United States | 519as Valerian | 1 in 641K | 477 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | 154as Valerian | 1 in 249K | 154 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 104as Valerian | 1 in 481K | 104 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 92as Valerian | 1 in 61K | 279 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 78as Valerian | 1 in 131K | 78 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 16as Valerian | 1 in 192K | 16 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 14 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 3as Valerian | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
1,234 people counted by e-services.md — living population register. 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: e-services.md — living population register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Valerianus 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.
In German, Weiterb, v. Valerius (s. d.): V a l e - rian (vgl. Baldrian)
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In English, Alternative form of Valerian.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, A Roman Emperor, Valerian
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)
- Valerian Zubovb. 1771RURussian general (1771-1804)
- Valerian Albanovb. 1882RURussian navigator (1882–1919)
- Valerian Osinskib. 1887RURussian politician (1887-1938)
- Valerian Kuybyshevb. 1888RUSoviet politician (1888-1935)
- Valerian Gaprindashvilib. 1888GEGeorgian poet (1888–1941)
- Valerian Frolovb. 1895RUSoviet general (1895–1961)
- Valerian Abakovskyb. 1895LVRussian inventor (1895-1921)
- Valerian Zorinb. 1902RUSoviet diplomat (1902-1986)
- Lars Ahlforsb. 1907FInot in their usual nameFinnish mathematician (1907-1996)
- Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellingtonb. 1915GBsenior British peer and retired Brigadier in the British Army (1915-2014)
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #19,086 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Valerianus mean, and where does it come from?
- from Valerius; name of a bishop of Trier Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Valerianus?
- In the etymology graph, Valerian, Valérian and Walerian are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Valerianus a male or female name?
- Valerianus 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 Valerianus have the most bearers?
- In Moldova, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Valerian, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Valerianus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Valerianus is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.9 million people — even though Moldova holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Valerianus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9 people named Valerianus, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valerianusThe 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, “Valerianus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.