Valentin
Valentin reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 660, and has been recorded 11,723 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 660th. About 10,000 Valentins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Valentin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,723
- Estimated living today
- 10,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 660th
- Rank in 2025
- 660th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Valentins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,723 babies given the name since 1912, about 10,000 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 5,100 of them are children and 520 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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 Valentins
- Valentin Serov (1865–1911)Russian painter
- Valentin Glushko (1908–1989)Soviet rocket engineer
- Valentin Ivanov (1934–2011)Soviet and Russian footballer and football coach
- Edmond François Valentin About (1828–1885)French writer and critic
- Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888)French composer and pianist
- Valentin Kataev (1897–1986)Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, poet
- Valentin Rasputin (1937–2015)Soviet and Russian writer
- Valentin Pavlov (1937–2003)Soviet official and Russian banker
People named Valentin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Valentin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Valentin is most concentrated in Texas (5.1×), Arizona (3.5×), California (3.3×), Nevada (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Valentin peaked:
Valentin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Valentin | 117,220 | 12th |
| Austria boys | Valentin | 7,071 | 17th |
| Belgium boys | Valentin | 3,643 | 68th |
| Switzerland boys | Valentin | 3,166 | 42nd |
| Italy boys | Valentin | 376 | — |
| England and Wales boys | Valentin | 348 | 962nd |
| Norway boys | Valentin | 212 | 338th |
| France girls | Valentin | 40 | 3,731st |
| Poland boys | Valentin | 31 birth registrations | 356th |
| Ireland boys | Valentin | 15 | 646th |
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.
Valentin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Valentin | 2,121 | 0.170% | 45th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Valentin | 1,040 | 0.239% | 15th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Valentin | 2 | 0.003% | 184th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Valentin | 3 | 0.081% | 16th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Valentin is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.29% of children were given it – 42 of them.
Valentin: rank by region
In 2025, Valentin was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Valentin | 714 | 7 |
| Wallonia | Valentin | 82 | 36 |
| Brussels | Valentin | 265 | 5 |
In 2023, Valentin was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Valentin | 325 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Valentin appears in the lists for Province of Liège (63rd), Province of Hainaut (90th) and Brussels-Capital Region (265th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Valentin by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 456 | 42nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Valentin 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 | Valentin | 229 | 1,903 |
| Finland girls | Valentin | 5 | 17 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,903 who carry it, 229 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.
Where Valentin lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 21,773 men called Valentin were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cáceres | Valentin | 460 | 2.393 | 83 |
| Zamora | Valentin | 195 | 2.379 | 80 |
| Ciudad Real | Valentin | 534 | 2.175 | 84 |
| Badajoz | Valentin | 706 | 2.151 | 85 |
| Cuenca | Valentin | 195 | 1.931 | 91 |
| Cantabria | Valentin | 554 | 1.927 | 90 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Valentin 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.