Valdemar
Valdemar reached its high-water mark in 2002 at number 3,554, and has been recorded 964 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 690 Valdemars are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Valdemar
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 964
- Estimated living today
- 690
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 2002
- Best rank
- 3,554th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Valdemars are
born that year still alive today
Of the 964 babies given the name since 1912, about 690 are alive — 72 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Valdemars
- Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182)King of Denmark
- Valdemar II of Denmark (1170–1241)King of Denmark from 1202 to 1241
- Valdemar IV of Denmark (1320–1375)King of Denmark
- Valdemar III of Denmark (1314–1364)King of Denmark and Duke of Schleswig
- Valdemar (1243–1302)King of Sweden
- Valdemar Poulsen (1869–1942)Danish engineer
- Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858–1939)Danish prince
- Valdemar the Young (1209–1231)Co-king of Denmark
People named Valdemar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Valdemar is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Valdemar is most concentrated in Texas (11.7×), California (1.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2002
The most popular boys’ names the year Valdemar peaked:
Valdemar elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark boys | Valdemar | 7,516 | 7th |
| France boys | Valdemar | 60 | 953rd |
| England and Wales boys | Valdemar | 7 | 3,385th |
| Poland boys | Valdemar | 2 birth registrations | 707th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Valdemar among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Valdemar | 113 | 6,498 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 6,498 who carry it, 113 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Valdemar against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.