boys:
11k births since 1912
#1103 (76th percentile)
overall:
11k births since 1912
#2513 (68th percentile)
The name Valentin is the #2,513 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,959 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 67.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,103 (75.9% percentile) for all time with 10,959 births since 1912.
Valentin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (first recorded for boys in 1912).
For boys, Valentin reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 39.8% percentile (ranked #532) with 182 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 203 births per million (ranked 37.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Valentin is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #570 (37.5% percentile) with 203 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Valentin".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Valentin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Valentin is pronounced as VA-luhn-tihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VA-luhn-teen, at 19.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like V AE1 L AH0 N T IH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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