Valentino
From Latin *valens*, "strong, healthy": the same root gave English *valid* and *valiant*. The Italian form of a Roman name, it stays rare in Poland, and most Poles have never met a boy who carries it.
Valentino Pronunciation
What Valentino means
Where Valentino comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Valentino comes from Latin, from the verb valere, meaning to be strong and in good health. The Roman family name Valentinus grew from valens, and the meaning stayed close to the root: healthy, strong, vigorous. A boy given this name was marked as sound in body. The same Latin stem gives English valid and valiant.
Italy made the name its own. Saint Valentine, a Roman martyr of the third century, gave February 14 its place in the calendar, and Italian kept Valentino as the living form of that old Roman name. In Poland the day belongs to Walenty.
On a Polish class register, Valentino sits a little apart from the Jakubs and Antonis around it. The Latin root has not faded. Whoever carries it carries the word for strength, valens, healthy and vigorous.
How many people are named Valentino
1 in 90068 men in Poland is named Valentino. 237 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2019 among male names.
Valentino's popularity over time
3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1382 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2011.
Where Valentino is most popular
Valentino is most popular in Lubusz, 625% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+327%) and Silesian (+217%).
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Lubusz2 boys born+625%
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West Pomeranian2 boys born+327%
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Silesian4 boys born+217%
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Lower Silesian2 boys born+129%
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Masovian2 boys born+2%
Valentino as a middle name
Valentino is a first name for 237 men in Poland and a middle name for another 95, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 737th, between Theodore (95) and Wenanty (95).
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#735 Salvatore95
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#736 Theodore95
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#737 Valentino95
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#738 Wenanty95
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#739 Laurent94