The Valentine surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 40,395 people carried this name — #856 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 7,300 people counted. That is up 7% from 37,669 in 2000.
In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890
Ireland registered 9 births for the Valentine name in 1890.
Most were registered in Leinster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 400 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time. One of them was indexed under another spelling of the name. The Registrar-General’s note on the name: “Dublin.”
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born, 1890
Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 52 people named Valentine.
13 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Martinique.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
37 people named Valentine live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
23 people named Valentine is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Valentine in American newspapers,
1898–1911.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 547,476 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Valentine,
with a public archive behind them.
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John Valentine d. 1558 · politician
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Di Valentine d. 2023 · nurse
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William Valentine d. 1884 · botanist
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Joan Margaret Valentine d. 2003
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Emily Frances Valentine d. 1967
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James Valentine d. 1917
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Valentine.
- Valencia 70,000 · U.S. census
- Valencourt 127 · U.S. census
- Valent 693 · U.S. census
- Valente 7,580 · U.S. census
- Valenti 8,174 · U.S. census
- Valentin 19,211 · U.S. census
- Valentini 858 · U.S. census
- Valentino 6,474 · U.S. census
- Valenza 995 · U.S. census
- Valenzuela 57,383 · U.S. census
- Valer 104 · U.S. census
- Valera 3,944 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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