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Valentina

From Latin, read as "strong and healthy". Barely 2,000 women in Poland carry it, so meeting one sticks with you, though the name still slips just inside the country's thousand most-given.

Valentina Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
2,304
Newborns 2025
11
National rank
#664

What Valentina means

Where Valentina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Valentina grows from the Latin valens, the present participle of valere, a verb that meant to be strong or in good health. So the short meaning, healthy and strong, sits right at the root rather than being fastened on later. It is the feminine of Valentinus, an old Roman family name.

Across Italy and Spain the name kept close to that Latin sound. Russian speakers made it their own too. The best documented bearer is Valentina Tereshkova, who in 1963 became the first woman to fly in space, a Russian pilot whose name spread far past her own country.

In Poland you meet it through Walentyna, its Polish variant, and behind both stands Walenty, the masculine form tied to Saint Valentine. Read a school class register on a grey February morning and a Walentyna may be sitting there, close to her own name-day. The meaning holds: silna, zdrowa, strong and healthy.

How many people are named Valentina

1 in 9785 women in Poland is named Valentina. 2,304 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #664 among female names.

People with the name Valentina 2019 → 2025
2,304 +1,645 since 2019
2020 747 +88
2021 855 +108
2022 1,040 +185
2023 2,147 +1,107
2024 2,217 +70
2025 2,304 +87

Valentina's popularity over time

11 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #676 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2006. Still the #664 name among living women, even as it slips to #676 among newborns.

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11 newborns with the name Valentina in 2025
national rank #676 that year

Where parents choose Valentina

Valentina is most popular in Lower Silesian, 112% above the national average (6 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+106%) and Masovian (+88%). It is least common in Lesser Poland, 51% below average.

Chosen most
  • Lower Silesian
    +112%
    1 in 26,189 babies
  • Greater Poland
    +106%
    1 in 26,905 babies
  • Masovian
    +88%
    1 in 29,522 babies
Chosen least
  • Lesser Poland
    −51%
    1 in 113,458 babies

Valentina as a middle name

Valentina is a first name for 2,304 women in Poland and a middle name for another 311, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 385th, between Margareta (311) and Luna (310).

As a first name
2,304
As a middle name
311
first name 88% middle name 12%
Middle-name ranking women

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