Valentino

6,232 people in the United States were counted with the surname Valentino in the 2020 census, making it the 5,403rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 48,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,232
Rank: 5,403rd
How common: 1 in 48,000
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

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

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.5%
Hispanic or Latino 9.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Valentino

Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926)Italian actor
Val Valentino (born 1956)American magician
Domenico Valentino (born 1984)Italian boxer

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

Surnames like Valentino

Also a first name

Valentino has been given to 11,784 American babies as a first name since 1910, peaking in 2025. 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.