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Valdemar

#13,746 in 2025Boys' name

Power, rule + famous

Valdemar has been given to 964 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #13,746 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Valdemar, 2025

1 in 663,000

Valdemar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valdemar: meaning, origin, and history

Power, rule + famous

German

What Valdemar means

Valdemar means “power, rule + famous”, associated with valdr and mærr.

Origin, language, and formation

Valdemar is used in Czech, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Its origins include German.

Valdemar comes through Proto-Slavic *Voldiměrъ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Waldemar.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Valdemar is pronounced [ˈvaldɛmar].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 964 boys were recorded with the name Valdemar between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,951 in 1953.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,998 in 2020 to #13,746 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,551 in 2015 to #13,746 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Valdemar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,746
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valdemar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valdemar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valdemars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valdemar was born before 1975 — so the typical Valdemar is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
12.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
706
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 12.8% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Valdemar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+357
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,748
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,195
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.8%
Peak was 2002 (24)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,951
1953

Spellings of Valdemar

Valdemar is not the most common spelling — Baldemar is, with 47.7% against Valdemar's 20.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Valdemar is used

Across 1910–2025, Valdemar was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 95,330 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Valdemar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Valdemar around the world

Where Valdemar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • France
    1910–1977
    #2,543
    in 1977

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Valdemar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,746
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,748
Best rank ever
#1,951
1953
Peak year
2002
24 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
964
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Valdemar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Valdemar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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