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Valente

#3,842 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Valente has been given to 1,930 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #3,842 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Valente, 2025

1 in 114,000

Valente over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valente: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Valente means

Valente is a given name.

The naming story behind Valente

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Valente in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 153.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “It. Lat. healthy”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Valente, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,930 boys were recorded with the name Valente between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,926 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,007 in 2020 to #3,842 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,872 in 2015 to #3,842 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.

How common is Valente?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,842
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valente 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valente. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valentes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valente was born before 1997 — so the typical Valente is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,711
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Choose a decade

2000s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (416).

Is Valente 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
+132
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+165
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+30
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.04×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2007 (58)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,926
1993

Spellings of Valente

Valente is not the most common spelling — Vicente is, with 48.9% against Valente's 4.3%.

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 Valente is used

Across 1910–2025, Valente was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 39,074 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 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. Valente has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Valente by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,842
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 165
Best rank ever
#1,926
1993
Peak year
2007
58 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,930
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Valente

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

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Sibling names for Valente

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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