Valletta
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: diminutive of valle; small valley
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vəlɛtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Valletta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 176K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 169K
- USUnited States1 in 316K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)
1,052 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
diminutive of valle; small valley
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Valletta is read(measured from records)
Valletta is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
city, Malta
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Valletta in Spanish.
- Italian12%
diminutive of valle; small valley
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de Valle com sufixo feminino singular -etta
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valletta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,052 | 1 in 316K | 1.1K | Valletta | 38 |
| AR Argentina | 258 | 1 in 176K | 258 | Valletta | 27 |
| BR Brazil | 59 | 1 in 3.6M | 59 | Valletta | 31 |
| ES Spain | 22 | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | — | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 20 | 1 in 169K | 20 | Valletta | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | 3 |
1,052 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Valletta 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 Afrikaans, Valletta (the capital city of Malta)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, Valletta (the capital of Malta)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, alternative spelling of Valeta
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)
- Giuseppe Vallettab. 1636ITItalian philosopher
- Francesco Vallettab. 1680ITItalian philologist and historian
- Nicola Vallettab. 1750ITItalian writer
- Vittorio Vallettab. 1883ITItalian senator (1883-1967)
- Anthony Vallettab. 1908MTMaltese Natrulist (1908-1988)
- Amber Vallettab. 1974USAmerican model and actress
- Robert G. VallettaUSeconomist (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Institute of Labor Economics (IZA))
- Chris VallettaUSAmerican television contestant
- Lorella Vallettaresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,978 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 858 | #26,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 615 | #38,716 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 258 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 59 | #93,298 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #80,699 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 20 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 11 | #61,420 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Valletta mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of valle; small valley Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Valletta?
- A machine transcription gives /vəlɛtə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Valletta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Valletta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valletta.
- Where is Valletta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Valletta is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 169 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Valletta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,052 people named Valletta in 2010, about 1 in 316 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Valletta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vallettaThe 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, “Valletta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.