Valerii
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vəʎɪɹɪi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Valerii is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 153as Валерій(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 200as Валерий
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 454as Валерий
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Valerii 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #104 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈710,000 named Валерий, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Валерий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Валерій in UA Ukraine, Valeriy in US United States and Valeri in GE Georgia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valerii 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #38 | ≈710,000 est. | ≈1 in 200 | #15 | Валерий | 203 |
| UA Ukraine | #39 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 153 | listed | Валерій | 106 |
| US United States | — | 226,036as Valerie | 1 in 1.5K | 226K | Valeriy | 226 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #35 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 454 | 5.9K | Валерий | 59 |
| BY Belarus | #43 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 610 | 35 | Валерий | 73 |
| PL Poland | — | 12,794 | 1 in 3K | 13K | Valerii | 46 |
| MD Moldova | #90 | 7,407as Valeri | 1 in 454 | 7.4K | Valerii | 24 |
| GE Georgia | #137 | 6,823as ვალერი | 1 in 586 | 6.8K | Valeri | 64 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); e-services.md — living population 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)
Valerii is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "strong."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Latin, genitive singular of Valerius
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)
- Valeriy Lobanovskyib. 1939UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian football manager (1939–2002)
- Valeriy Shevchukb. 1939UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer (1939-2025)
- Valeriy Porkujanb. 1944UAnot in their usual nameSoviet footballer
- Valerii Pustovoitenkob. 1947UAUkrainian politician
- Valeriy Borzovb. 1949UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian sprinter
- Valery Soloveyb. 1960RUnot in their usual nameRussian historian, publicist and public figure
- Valeriy Konovalyukb. 1966UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian politician
- Valerii Zaluzhnyib. 1973UAUkrainian military officer (born 1973)
- Valeriy Sokolovb. 1986UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian violinist
- Valeriy Chybineyevb. 1988UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian military sniper (1988-2022)
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 13K | #161 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12K | #161 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 6.1K | #152 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2023 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #18,658 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #18,659 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2022 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2021 | 3 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Valerii?
- A machine transcription gives /vəʎɪɹɪi/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Valerii a male or female name?
- Valerii is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Valerii have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 710 thousand people named Валерий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Valerii most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Valerii is densest in Poland — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Valerii?
- In Poland, the national register counted 12,794 people named Valerii in 2026, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Valerii compared with other names?
- In Russia, Valerii is the 38th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Valerii?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valeriiThe 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, “Valerii” — the 38th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.