Given name & surname

Valters

Valters is a masculine given name from Old High German. It is used in Latvian.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Valters comes from Old High German.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Valters’s family of names

In Latvian usage, Valters has a conventional equivalent in the English form Walter. In Greek usage, Valters as a surname is a transliteration of Βάλτερς.

Walk Valters’s family in the name graph

ValtersΒάλτερςWalter

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Valters has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Old High German roots to each of them.

Old High German

2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

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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.

People named Valters

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Similar names

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Slavic

Valdemārs

Valdemārs is a masculine given name from Old High German, ultimately from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Latvian.

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Old High German

Valppu

Valppu is a surname from Old High German. It is used in Finnish.

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Old High German

Voldemārs

Voldemārs is a masculine given name from Old High German. It is used in Latvian.

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Germanic

Volkmer

“people”

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Old High German

Volkhart

Volkhart is a masculine given name from Old High German. It is used in German.

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Old High German

Volkhard

Volkhard is a masculine given name from Old High German. It is used in German.

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Old High German

Volkhardt

Volkhardt is a masculine given name from Old High German. It is used in German.

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Old High German

Vitoldus

“wood”

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Sibling ideas

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

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