Valentyna
Close to 29,000 women in Poland carry it, yet it barely gets given now: three newborn girls last year. The name grows from Latin valens, "strong and healthy", and reads more Ukrainian than Polish.
Valentyna Pronunciation
What Valentyna means
Where Valentyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Valentyna grows from the Latin valens, meaning strong and healthy. The Roman name Valentinus came from the verb valere, to be strong or well. It is the same root behind the saint whose feast falls on 14 February. The short meaning stayed close to that source, silna and zdrowa, strong and healthy.
In Ukraine the name settled deeply, and Ukrainian women named Valentyna filled the twentieth century, among them the cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. The Polish variant walentyna sits beside it, and the masculine walenty shares the same Latin ancestor.
Everyday use trims it down. Friends and family reach for wala. At an imieniny in February, a girl called Valentyna might hear her name read next to the old form Walenty, both pointing back to valens, strong and healthy.
How many people are named Valentyna
1 in 769 women in Poland is named Valentyna. 29,322 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #244 among female names.
Valentyna's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1383 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021. Still the #244 name among living women, even as it slips to #1383 among newborns.
Valentyna as a middle name
Valentyna is a first name for 29,322 women in Poland and a middle name for another 27, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1391st, between Ula (27) and Vesna (27).
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#1389 Tessa27
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#1390 Ula27
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#1391 Valentyna27
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#1392 Vesna27
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#1393 Ximena27