Valentino is the Italian elaboration of Valentine, from the Latin valens, meaning strong or vigorous. It arrives with silent film glamour, Rudolph Valentino's slicked-back hair and smoldering stare, and with the couture house whose red is its own proper noun. At rank 452, it's climbing steadily in the U.S. as parents embrace longer, unapologetically romantic Italian names, alongside Leonardo and Lorenzo. Four languid syllables, rolling and warm, a name that requires no shortening but offers Val or Tino if asked. Operatic, velvet-lined, and a touch theatrical, Valentino is for a child who won't mind making an entrance, or will secretly love it.
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1880 to today
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- Alexandria
- Katalina
- Carolina
- Alessandra
- Felicity
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