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Valentin

#660 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Valentinus

Valentin has been given to 11,723 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #660 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 418 recorded.

Babies named Valentin, 2025

1 in 7,930

Valentin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valentin: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Valentinus

Latin

What Valentin means

Valentin is a form of Valentinus.

Origin, language, and formation

Valentin is used in Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian and Romanian and additional language sections. Its origins include Latin.

Valentin comes through Latin Valentīnus and Indonesian cognomen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Valentinus and Valentine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Valentin is pronounced [ˈvalɛntiːn].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,723 boys were recorded with the name Valentin between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 418 in 2025; its best national rank was #614 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #771 in 2020 to #660 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #924 in 2015 to #660 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 Valentin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,930
418 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,090
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#660
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,499 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valentin 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,499 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valentin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valentins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valentin was born before 2005 — so the typical Valentin is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,755
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (2,425).

Is Valentin 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
+88
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+111
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+264
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (418)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#614
2007

Spellings of Valentin

Valentin is not the most common spelling — Valentino is, with 36.7% against Valentin's 36.5%.

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 Valentin is used

Across 2016–2025, Valentin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 2,273 boys, against 1 in 4,929 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

244 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 2,273
  2. 2Arizona1 in 2,439
  3. 3Texas1 in 2,564
  4. 4Colorado1 in 3,448
  5. 5Nevada1 in 3,846
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 4,167
  7. 7Illinois1 in 4,348
  8. 8Washington1 in 4,348

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.

Geographically, Valentin is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 95% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Valentin around the world

Where Valentin 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
    1998–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2023
    #660
    in 2023
  • France
    1900–2025
    #59
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #404
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Valentin

People whose public names include Valentin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Valentin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Valentin. Linked forms have their own page here.

ValenteValentineValentinoBálintValtinWalentyValentynValentýnValentenoValentijnValentīnsValentinusValentínusValyantsin

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Valentin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#660
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 111
Best rank ever
#614
2007
Peak year
2025
418 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,723
Count in 2025
418

Names similar to Valentin

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

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Names with a curve like Valentin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Valentin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Valentin

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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