Given name · also Norse
Valdis
“one who is spirited in battle”
Valdis is used as a given name. One interpretation is “one who is spirited in battle.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who is spirited in battle.”
The story
In mythological stories, Valdis is associated with the goddess of the dead.
Valdis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 82
- 82 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 13 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 1978. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 265 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Valdis’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Valdis has a feminine form in Valda. Valdis has a related form in Valdiss. Valdis has a related form in Valdys.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Valdis
- Valdis ZatlersPresident of Latviaborn 1955
- Valdis Dombrovskis11th Prime Minister of Latviaborn 1971
- Valdis Muižnieksbasketball player (1935–2013)
- Valdis BirkavsLatvian politician (born 1942)
- Valdis ValtersLatvian basketball player (born 1957)
- Valdis PelšsRussian actorborn 1967
- Valdis MuktupāvelsLatvian composer and ethnomusicologist (born 1958)
- Valdis CelmsLatvian graphic designerborn 1943
- Valdis KalnrozeLatvian painter (1894-1993)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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