Valencia

Where Valencia comes from

From Spanish Valencia, from Latin Valentia, from valentia (“power, vigour”). Doublet of Valence.
— Wiktionary's entry for Valencia
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #4,814 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1969
    Valencia Stovall born
    American politician
  3. 1970
    Peak, #633
    261 babies named Valencia — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1993
    Valencia Tanoesoedibjo born
    Indonesian businesswoman (born 1993 in Jakarta)
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,359.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Valencia Stovall · American politician, born 1969
  • Valencia Tanoesoedibjo · Indonesian businesswoman (born 1993 in Jakarta), born 1993

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.