Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Valens isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2023. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Valens through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,751 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,751 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Valens’s family of names
In Greek usage, Valens as a surname is a transliteration of Βάλενς.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Valens
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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