Given name & surname · also Spanish
Valdez
Valdez is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Asturian. It is used in English, Spanish, Tagalog, and Ilocano.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Valdez comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Asturian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Spanish usage, Valdez as a surname developed from Valdés.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Valdez through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 258
- 258 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 376 as a first name in 2020; 122,442 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Valdez’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Valdez as a surname developed from the Asturian form Valdés. In Ilocano usage, Valdez as a surname has a related form in Valdés.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Valdez
- Val DemingsAmerican politician in Florida (born 1957)
- V. J. EdgecombeBahamian basketball player (born 2005)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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