Given name & surname
Valeriano
Valeriano is a masculine given name. It is used in Cebuano.
Original LatinValerianus
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Valeriano through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 121
- 121 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 8 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 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 812 as a first name in 2020; 1,883 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.
Valeriano’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Valeriano has a conventional equivalent in the German form Valerian. In Portuguese usage, Valeriano has a conventional equivalent in the Latin form Valerianus. In Portuguese usage, Valeriano has a conventional equivalent in the French form Valérien.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Valeriano has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Valeriano comes from · 1 name
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Valeriano
- Valeriano WeylerSpanish general (1838-1930)
- Valeriano BécquerSpanish painter (1833-1870)
- Valeriano LópezPeruvian footballer (1926-1993)
- Valeriano GómezSpanish politicianborn 1957
- Valeriano Orobón FernándezSpanish activist1901–1936
- Valeriano MartínezSpanish politician1961–2021
- Valeriano BozalSpanish art historian (1940–2023)
- Valeriano Luigi BreraItalian physician (1772-1840)
- Valeriano AndrésSpanish actor (1922-2005)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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