Given name & surname
Valo
“man of the light”
Valo is used as a given name and a surname. One Finnish interpretation is “man of the light.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Finnish interpretation is “man of the light.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Finnish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Valo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,753 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,753 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 148 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.
Valo’s family of names
Valo has a related form in Vallo. In Greek usage, Valo as a surname is a transliteration of Βάλο.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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