Given name
Valerija
“strong and valiant”
In Dutch use, Valerija has a related form in Valerie. In Latin use, Valerie carries the interpretation “strong and valiant.”
Original LatinValeria
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Dutch use, Valerija has a related form in Valerie. In Latin use, Valerie carries the interpretation “strong and valiant.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Latvian usage, Valerija developed from Valeria.
Valerija’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Valerija developed from the Latin form Valeria. In Dutch usage, Valerija has a related form in Valerie. In Latvian usage, Valerija has a conventional equivalent in the German form Valerie.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Valerija has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Valerija comes from · 1 name
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 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Valerija
- ValeriyaRussian singerborn 1968
- Valeriya StrakhovaUkrainian female tennis playerborn 1995
- Valeriya MusinaRussian basketball player (born 1987)
- Valeriia GudymUkrainian rhythmic gymnastborn 1995
- Valeriya ZabruskovaRussian javelin throwerborn 1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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