Valverde
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Recife, London, Barbados, Jamaica, Spanishtown, Dutch Brazil, Amsterdam
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/balbɛrdɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Valverde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 100(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 903
- ECEcuador1 in 920
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 330 (measured from records)
- 1 in 100 (inferred from the name graph)
50,976 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)
Recife, London, Barbados, Jamaica, Spanishtown, Dutch Brazil, Amsterdam
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Valverde 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 | #18 | 50,976 | 1 in 100 | 51K | Valverde | 121 |
| PE Peru | #111 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 903 | — | Valverde | 99 |
| ES Spain | #180 | 24,665 | 1 in 2K | 25K | Valverde | 191 |
| EC Ecuador | #140 | 18,384 | 1 in 920 | 18K | Valverde | 55 |
| BR Brazil | — | 14,488 | 1 in 15K | 14K | — | 3 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Valverde | 50 |
| NI Nicaragua | #149 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Valverde | 37 |
50,976 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Valverde is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, merous places so called from OSp. val valley (see Vale) + verde green (see Verde). The reference is to particularly lush pastures in a well-watered valley. Van Praag see Prager Vambery see Bamberger
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Spanish, a placename
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, oriundo de lugares chamados Valverde; composto de Val e Verde
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Portuguese, toadflax (any plant of the genus Linaria)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Itālijā ("Valverde"), Sicīlijas reģiona Katānijas provincē, 7900 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tito Valverdeb. 1951ESSpanish actor
- Bernardo Redínb. 1963COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Ernesto Valverdeb. 1964ESSpanish association football player and manager
- Alejandro Valverdeb. 1980ESSpanish cyclist
- Carlos Hernándezb. 1982CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Raúl Fernándezb. 1985PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer
- María Valverdeb. 1987ESSpanish actress
- Ísis Valverdeb. 1987BRBrazilian actress
- Yeltsin Tejedab. 1992CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Federico Valverdeb. 1998UYUruguayan professional footballer (born 1998)
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 35 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Valverde mean, and where does it come from?
- Recife, London, Barbados, Jamaica, Spanishtown, Dutch Brazil, Amsterdam Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Valverde?
- A machine transcription gives /balbɛrdɛ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Valverde have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Valverde, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled valverde.
- Where is Valverde most common?
- Valverde is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 100 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Valverde?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 50,976 people named Valverde, about 1 in 100 residents.
- How common is Valverde compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Valverde is the 18th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/valverdeThe 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, “Valverde” — the 18th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.