Valentin

Where Valentin comes from

Valentin hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1865
    Valentin Serov born
    Russian painter
  2. 1908
    Valentin Glushko born
    Soviet rocket engineer
  3. 1912
    First appearance
    #1,885 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2007
    Peak, #614
    404 babies named Valentin — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Valentin Serov · Russian painter, 1865–1911
  • Valentin Glushko · Soviet rocket engineer, 1908–1989
  • Valentin Ivanov · Soviet and Russian footballer and football coach, 1934–2011
  • Valentin Kataev · Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, poet, 1897–1986
  • Valentin Rasputin · Soviet and Russian writer, 1937–2015

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.