# Valentina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/valentina/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 65,166 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 19 / 65,147 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,138, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Spanish, Italian, and Latin Valentīna, feminine forms of Spanish and Italian Valentino, and Latin Valentīnus. Doublet of Valentine, Valentinus, Valentino, and Valentini.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,018 | 154 |
| 2012 | 1,904 | 167 |
| 2013 | 2,565 | 129 |
| 2014 | 2,783 | 112 |
| 2015 | 2,751 | 114 |
| 2016 | 2,920 | 106 |
| 2017 | 3,042 | 96 |
| 2018 | 3,436 | 81 |
| 2019 | 3,797 | 65 |
| 2020 | 3,352 | 73 |
| 2021 | 3,467 | 69 |
| 2022 | 3,901 | 57 |
| 2023 | 4,090 | 50 |
| 2024 | 4,456 | 47 |
| 2025 | 5,354 | 35 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 10,714 |
| 2024 | 5 | 14,110 |
| 2025 | 7 | 10,598 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 79 | 530 |
| 2012 | 143 | 340 |
| 2013 | 152 | 306 |
| 2014 | 162 | 294 |
| 2015 | 146 | 320 |
| 2016 | 160 | 309 |
| 2017 | 216 | 233 |
| 2018 | 210 | 239 |
| 2019 | 183 | 263 |
| 2020 | 196 | 238 |
| 2021 | 202 | 246 |
| 2022 | 203 | 231 |
| 2023 | 168 | 268 |
| 2024 | 176 | 270 |
| 2025 | 169 | 272 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Валенти́на
- Esperanto: Valentena
- French: Valentine
- German: Valentina
- Greek: Βαλεντίνα
- Icelandic: Valentína
- Italian: Valentina
- Latvian: Valentīna
- Russian: Валенти́на
- Slovak: Valentína
- Spanish: Valentina

## People named Valentina

- Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans, (1371-1408) wife of Louis de Valois, Duke of Orléans
- Valentina Zenere, Argentinian actress, model and singer esposa de Atilio
- Valentina Vargas, French actress
- Valentina Tronel, French singer
- Valentina Sampaio, Brazilian model and actress
- Valentina Ponomaryova, cosmonaut (1933–2023)
- Valentina Sidorova, fencer (1954–2021)
- Valentina Acosta Giraldo, Colombian archer
- Valentina Nikonova, fencer
- Valentina Pistoli, Albanian architect (1928-1993)
- Valentina Tsybulskaya, Belorussian athletics competitor (born 1968)
- Valentina Borisenko, chess player (1920–1993)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.