Given name & surname
Valente
“one who is valiant”
Valente is used as a given name and a surname. One Italian interpretation is “one who is valiant.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “one who is valiant.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Valente through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,930
- 1,930 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 58 babies
- 2025
- 29
- #3,843 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +8%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 29 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,843 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 8.0% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 58 in 2007. In 2025, California and Texas shared the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (9 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,788 as a first name in 2020; 7,213 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.
Valente’s family of names
Valente has a related form in Valient. Valente has a related form in Valiente. In Italian usage, Valente has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Walenty.
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 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Valentinoequivalent
- Valentinequivalent
- Valentýnequivalent
- Valentenoequivalent
- Валянцінequivalent
- Valentíequivalent
- Valentínusequivalent
- WalentyPolish
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People named Valente
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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