Valente
Masculine · “strong”
Valente is the Italian and Spanish form of a Latin word for strength and health — and the same root gives the Latin farewell vale, which literally means be well.
How old is the name Valente?
Valente first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Valente alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 1,700 people named Valente are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Valente most popular?
Valente peaked in 1993, reaching #1907 nationally. Today it ranks #3757, 1,850 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From valens to Valente
The story of Valente
Valens was a Roman name and an emperor's, and the word behind it runs through Latin in a whole family of terms about strength and worth. Italian and Spanish made Valente, and the related Valentine and Valentino come from a derived form. The name was well used in Italy, Spain and Mexico and reaches American records with families from all of them; it is also an Italian and Spanish surname.
Meaning
strong, healthy, capable
From Latin valens, the present participle of valere, to be strong or to be well; the same verb gives valid, value, convalesce and the farewell vale.
How the name formed
- valens
- Valente
Related forms: Valente · Valente · Valentine
Pronouncing Valente
vah-LEN-teh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The final e is sounded in Italian and Spanish.
Nicknames for Valente
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1916
- Most boys named
- 200758 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1907reached in 1993
- Change vs 2023
- −3.3%29 in 2025, from 30
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Valente in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Valente in Spanish — same name
- Valente in Portuguese — same name
- Valentine in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Valentes among us
people named Valente are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 58,899 born in 2025 was named Valente
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Vincient test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Valente's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Vincient climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Vincient's path sketches the road Valente is walking now.
Valente sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Valente is headed
Valente should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Valente beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Valente in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a documented Latin root and a very large word family.
- Val and Tino are both ready short forms, in two languages.
- Every letter is sounded, so Italian and Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- The final e is sounded in the source languages and silent to English readers.
- Valentino and Valentine are both better known in English.
- Val is more often a women's name in American English.
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Masculine · #3757 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Valentes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Valente are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Valente in 2025?
- Valente ranks #3757 among US boy names in 2025, with 29 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Valente?
- About 1 in every 58,899 US boys born in 2025 was named Valente — 29 in all.
- Will my child share the name Valente with classmates?
- Valente will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Valente
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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