Given name
Valeriana
“strong and valiant”
Valeriana is a variant of Valerie. In Latin use, Valerie carries the interpretation “strong and valiant.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Valeriana is a variant of Valerie. In Latin use, Valerie carries the interpretation “strong and valiant.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Spanish Valeriana, built from English Valerian + -a.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Valeriana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 0 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 6 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 girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 288 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.
Valeriana’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Valeriana has a diminutive in BALET. Valeriana has a related form in Valerie. In Italian usage, Valeriana has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Waleriana.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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