Given name

Valerine

Valerine is a feminine given name.

Meaning & origin

How it developed

Built from English Valerie + ine.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Valerine through the years

Babies since 1880
5
0 boys · 5 girls
Most popular year
1978
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
—
Too few births to compare
01234198020002025Highest share 19780.0
Valerine in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1978–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1978. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Valerine’s family of names

Valerine may belong to the same name family as VALERINNE. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Valerine’s family in the name graph

ValerineValérineVallerine

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Similar names

If you love Valerine, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Royal

Ariane

“resembling silver” · “one who is holy”

21RareCooling

>99% girls

Ancient Greek · Royal

Katharine

“one who is pure; virginal”

25RareCooling

>99% girls

Nature

Adrianne

“man from Hadria” · “a man from Hadria”

22RareCooling

>99% girls

 

Amie

“beloved” · “dearly loved”

26RareCooling

>99% girls

Latin

Amity

“a dear friendship”

28RareRising

>99% girls

Greek · Nature

Adria

“man from Hadria” · “a man from Hadria”

33RareSteady

>99% girls

 

Sunshine

Sunshine is a surname.

33RareSteady

1% boys · 99% girls

 

Corie

“from the hollow; of the churning waters”

23RareEasing

9% boys · 91% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Valerine’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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