Valerin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A glyceride of valeric acid, found in butter, dolphin oil, etc
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/baleˈɾin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Valerin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 230K
- BRBrazil1 in 2.6M
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,415 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A glyceride of valeric acid, found in butter, dolphin oil, etc.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Valerin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #174 | 4,415 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.4K | Valerin | 42 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Valerin | 21 |
| US United States | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 6 | Valerin | 40 |
| BR Brazil | — | 83 | 1 in 2.6M | 83 | Valerin | 13 |
| FR France | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 921K | 19 | Valerin | 1 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Valerin | 4 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Valerin | 9 |
4,415 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4.4K | #261 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 83 | #72,772 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 4 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Valerin mean, and where does it come from?
- A glyceride of valeric acid, found in butter, dolphin oil, etc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Valerin?
- In Spanish /baleˈɾin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Valerin have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Valerin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valerin.
- Where is Valerin most common?
- Valerin is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Valerin?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 4,415 people named Valerin, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Valerin compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Valerin is the 174th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valerinThe 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, “Valerin” — the 174th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.