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Type Surname (from given name & from nickname)
Usage Italian, Galician, Portuguese
Meaning & History
Italian, Galician, and Portuguese: nickname from valente ‘brave’, ‘valiant’.
Italian: from the personal name Valente, of the same origin and meaning as 1, which was borne by a 6th-century bishop of Verona.
Italian: from the personal name Valente, of the same origin and meaning as 1, which was borne by a 6th-century bishop of Verona.