Valerio is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning “to be strong.” In 2024 it was given to 28 boys in the United States.
Valerio at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Italian
Meaning
“to be strong”
About the name Valerio
Valerio belongs to the Italian tradition. Its meaning — “to be strong” — is the sense carried by its Italian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Valerio first appears in Social Security records in 1920. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2748 in 1955, and in 2024 28 babies received the name — 484 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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