Valentine
Valentin [ 'valəntin ], also [ ' faləntin ] in southern Germany , is a male given name that also occurs as a family name. Today it is mostly used in connection with Valentine's Day ; As a first name it is enjoying increasing popularity again in the German-speaking world.
Origin and meanings
The name Valentin comes from the Latin valere = "to be healthy", "to be strong".
name day
- January 7th , St. Valentine of Raetia
- February 14th (Valentine's Day), Saint Valentine of Terni
Name bearer
- Valentinus († after 160), Gnostic
- Saint Valentine of Terni (3rd century AD), martyr
- St. Valentin of Viterbo († 304), martyr
- Valentinus († around 368), rebel leader in Britain
- St. Valentin of Raetia († around 475), bishop
- Valentinos († 644), Byzantine general and usurper
- Valentin († 827), Pope
- Valentin of Prague († 1182), bishop
- Valentinus , fellow dog of Venice, † after 810
First name
- Valentin Adamberger (1743–1804), German singer (tenor), see Josef Valentin Adamberger
- Valentin Adrian (1793–1864), German writer, neophilologist and librarian
- Valentin Alberti (1635–1697), German theologian
- Heinrich Valentin Becker (1732–1796), German theologian and mathematician
- Valentin Eduard Becker (1814–1890), German composer
- Valentin Weidner (1848–1919), German sculptor
- Valentin Braitenberg (1926–2011), South Tyrolean brain researcher, cyberneticist and writer
- Valentin Heider (1605–1664), German lawyer and envoy to the Westphalian Peace Congress
- Valentin Herr (* 1957), German soccer player and coach
- Valentin Kononen (* 1969), Finnish athlete
- Valentin Landmann (* 1950), Swiss lawyer and book author
- Valentin Meyer (1725–1808), Swiss politician, see Joseph Rudolf Valentin Meyer
- Valentin Porte (* 1990), French handball player
- Valentin Przybylski (1906– ??), German football player
- Valentin Matthias Rahmel (* 1984), German moderator and entrepreneur, see Sarazar
- Valentin Schreyer (actor) (* 1978), Austrian actor
- Valentin Stocker (* 1989), Swiss soccer player
- Valentin Tomberg (1900–1973), mystic
- Valentin Vornicu (* 1983), Romanian-American poker player and mathematician
- Valentin Weckerle (* 1990), German handball player
Valentino
- Valentino Braitenberg (1926–2011), South Tyrolean neuroscientist, cyberneticist and writer
- Valentino Bucchi (1916–1976), Italian composer, music critic and teacher
- Valentino Del Fabbro (1866–1915), Italian craftsman and entrepreneur
- Valentino Fioravanti (composer) (1764–1837), Italian composer
- Valentino Garavani (known as Valentino ; * 1932), Italian fashion designer
- Valentino Graziadei (1898–1965), Austrian magician
- Valentino Rossi (* 1979), Italian motorcycle racer
- Valentino Stepčić (* 1990), Croatian football player
family name
- Adolf Valentin (1845–1911), Swiss ENT doctor and university professor
- Alejandro Valentín (* 1966/1967), Uruguayan weightlifter
- Anton Valentin (architect) (1895–1976), Austrian architect
- Anton Valentin (functionary) (1898–1967), German federal chairman of the Landsmannschaft of the Banat Swabians
- August Valentin (1858–1940), Austrian sculptor
- Barbara Valentin (1940–2002), Austrian actress
- Benoît Valentin (* 1992), French freestyle skier
- Bobby Valentín (* 1941), Puerto Rican musician
- Bruno Valentin (1885–1969), German-Brazilian orthopedist, medical historian and university professor
- Bruno Valentin (Bishop) (* 1972), French clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Versailles
- Carl Valentin (1885–1966), German landscape, genre and animal painter from the Düsseldorf School
- Caroline Valentin born Pichler (1855–1923), German musicologist
- Curt Valentin (1902–1954), German-American art dealer
- Dave Valentin (1952–2017), American jazz flutist
- Erich Valentin (musicologist) (1906–1993), German musicologist and music teacher
- Erich Valentin (politician) (* 1960), Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the Vienna State Parliament
- Ernst Valentin (1874–1950), German engineer, aviation and automotive technician and specialist magazine publisher (emigration 1939; died in Brazil)
- Esther Valentin (* 1993), German concert singer with a mezzo-soprano voice
- Friedrich Valentin (1752–1819), German sculptor
- Fritz Valentin (1897–1984), German lawyer and judge
- Fritz Valentin , pseudonym of Karl Czernetz (1910–1978), Austrian politician and party official
- Gabriel Gustav Valentin (1810–1883), German physiologist and embryologist
- Georg Hermann Valentin (1848–1926), German librarian and mathematician
- Hartmut Valentin (1923–1977), German geographer
- Hellwig Valentin (* 1947), Austrian historian and journalist
- Helmut Valentin (1919–2008), German occupational physician
- Hugo Valentin (historian) (1888–1963), Swedish historian
- Hugo Valentin (politician) (* 1938), South Tyrolean politician (SVP)
- Hermann Valentin (1863–1913), German lawyer and politician
- Hermann Friedrich Valentin (1812–1885), German lawyer and politician
- Jean Valentin (1899– ??), Belgian lawyer
- Joachim Valentin (* 1965), German Roman Catholic theologian
- Johannes Valentin (1884–1959), German pharmacy historian and university professor
- Jorge Valentín (* 1964), Cuban sprinter
- Karl Valentin (composer) (1853–1918), Swedish composer, conductor and musicologist
- Karl Valentin (1882–1948), German comedian
- Lidia Valentín (* 1985), Spanish weightlifter
- Max Valentin (1875–1931), German sculptor and architect
- Max Valentin (Mayor) (1902–1979), German politician (DP), Mayor of Vorsfelde
- Mira Valentin (* 1977), German journalist and book author
- Peter Valentin (sculptor) (1877–1962), Italian-German sculptor
- Peter Valentin (painter) (1904–1995), German painter and draftsman
- Peter Valentin (musician) (* 1961), Austrian musician and composer
- Siegfried Valentin (* 1936), German athlete
- Thomas Valentin (1922–1980), German writer
- Tristan Valentin (* 1982), French racing cyclist
- Ursula Valentin (actually Ursula Genazino ; * 1936), German writer
- Veit Valentin (pedagogue) (1842–1900), German art historian and pedagogue
- Veit Valentin (historian) (1885–1947), German historian and archivist
Literary characters
- Gretchen's brother in Goethe's drama Faust I , in Vischer's satirical play Faust. The third part of the tragedy .
- Valentin and Namelos (Low German Poetry)
variants
Valens , Valentinus , Valentianus, Valentius, Valentino , Valentinian, Valentiniano, Vale, Valle, Vali, Valik (Russian), Valtin , Velten (Low German), Voller, Valentine (English), Walenty (Polish), Valentyn (Ukrainian), Bálint (Hungarian), Tino (short form of Valentino), Valentinas (lit.
places
- Sankt Valentin (Lower Austria)
- St. Valentin on the Haide (South Tyrol)
- Valentin submarine bunker , the code name of the former submarine bunker in Bremen-Rekum
- former municipality in the French department of Doubs, today part of the municipality of École-Valentin
- Valentinspark in Unterschleißheim
church
Companies
Web links
Wiktionary: Valentin - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Frequency, regional distribution, and age cohort distribution of the name Valentin in Slovenia