Valerijs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valerijs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вале́рий (Valérij).
- LVLatvia1 in 400(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 39K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 50K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 400 (inferred from the name graph)
4,701 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вале́рий (Valérij)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valerijs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #153 | 4,701 | 1 in 400 | 4.7K | Valerijs | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 877K | — | Valerijs | 34 |
| SE Sweden | — | 30 | 1 in 340K | 30 | Valerijs | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 200K | 172 | Valerijs | 10 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 50K | listed | Valerijs | 8 |
| IS Iceland | — | 9 | 1 in 39K | 9 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 273K | — | Valerijs | 3 |
4,701 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling valērijs. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Valerijs is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Valerijs mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian male given name Вале́рий (Valérij) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Valerijs a male or female name?
- Valerijs 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.
- What are other forms of the name Valerijs?
- In the etymology graph, Valērija is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Valerijs have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Valerijs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valerijs.
- Where is Valerijs most common?
- Valerijs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 400 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Valerijs?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 4,701 people named Valerijs, about 1 in 400 residents.
- How common is Valerijs compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Valerijs is the 153rd most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valerijsThe 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, “Valerijs” — the 153rd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.