Valerie
Valerie is a feminine given name . It is to be distinguished from the male name Валерий (Valerij, Valeri). The original Latin form is Valeria , as a feminine form of Valerius .
origin
Valerie comes from the Roman gentile name Valerius ("from the family of the Valerians "), which means "the strong, healthy" (from the Latin valere ).
Variants / pet forms
Variants:
- Valeria (Latin, Italian, Albanian)
- Valéria (Slovak, Hungarian)
- Valerie (German, English)
- Valérie / Valéry (French)
- Валерия (Russian, Ukrainian)
- Waleria (Polish)
Nicknames:
- Vali
- Vale (Switzerland)
- Vala (Germany)
- Val (America)
- Lera (Russia)
- Valle (Germany)
- Valli (Germany)
- Lili (Germany, Austria)
- Vava (Switzerland)
Name bearers
- Jade Valerie Villalon (* 1980), American pop singer and actress
- Marie Valerie of Austria (1868–1924), Austrian Archduchess
- Valerie Adams (* 1984), New Zealand athlete
- Valerie Bettis (1919–1982), American dancer and choreographer
- Valerie Bolzano (* 1968), Austrian actress and cabaret artist
- Valérie Crunchant (* 1978), French actress
- Valérie Ducognon (* 1972), French ski mountaineer
- Valerie Fritsch (* 1989), Austrian writer and photo artist
- Valérie Garbani (* 1966), Swiss politician
- Valerie Haller (* 1970), German presenter and stock market reporter
- Valerie Harper (1939–2019), American actress
- Valerie Jarrett (* 1956), American lawyer, businesswoman and politician
- Valérie Kaprisky (* 1962), French actress
- Valerie Lorenz-Szabo (1916–1996), Austrian writer
- Valerie Mahaffey (born 1953), American actress
- Valerie Niehaus (* 1974), German actress
- Valerie Perrine (born 1943), American actress
- Valérie Sajdik (* 1978), Austrian pop singer ( Valerie )
- Valerie Solanas (1936–1988), American radical feminist writer
- Valérie Tasso (1969), French writer
- Valérie Trierweiler (* 1965), French journalist and former partner of the French President François Hollande
- Valérie Valère (1961–1982), French writer
- Valerie Weigmann (* 1989), German-Filipino model and actress
- Valérie Zenatti (* 1970), French-Israeli writer
Valerie in art
- Valérie , title of a novel by Juliane von Krüdener
- Valerie and the bedtime swing , title of a children's book by Mira Lobe and Winfried Opgenoorth
- Valerie (film) , title of a German film drama from 2006
- Valerie (2010) , German film
- Valerie - A Week of Miracles , a Czech horror fairy tale film from 1970
- Valerie , title of a song by the English band The Zutons (coveredby Amy Winehouse )
- Valleri, title of a song by The Monkees