Valentine

At the 2020 census, 39,158 Americans bore the surname Valentine — 872nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,633.

By the numbers

People: 39,158
Rank: 872nd
How common: 1 in 7,633
Per 100,000: 13.1

Where the name comes from

From Latin Valentīnus<id:cognomen>, a patronymic from Valēns, itself nominalized from vālens (“strong, healthy”) + -īnus (“-ine”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Valentine described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 63.9%
Black, not Hispanic 22.2%
Hispanic or Latino 8.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Valentine

Angelina Valentine (born 1986)Latin American pornographic actress
Hilton Valentine (1943–2021)British guitarist
James Valentine (born 1978)American guitarist
Steve Valentine (born 1966)Scottish actor
Howard Valentine (1881–1932)athletics competitor
Gary Valentine (born 1961)American actor and comedian
Denzel Valentine (born 1993)American basketball player
Karen Valentine (born 1947)American actress

People named Valentine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Valentine

Also a first name

Valentine has been given to 8,950 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.