Valter

Valter

Gender	masculine
Origin
Word/name	Germanic
Meaning	"rule" + "army"
Other names
Related names	Walther, Walter, Valtyr

Valter is a spelling variant of the German name Walter, Walther, from Old High German walt "rule" and her "army". The spelling variant in V- is adopted in a number of European languages, including Scandinavian (North Germanic), Finnic (Finnish, Estonian), Slavic (Slovenian, Croatian), Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian) and Romance (Italian, Portuguese).

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Valter (Brazilian footballer), Brazilian football striker Valter Silva do Nascimento (born 1975)
• Valter Birsa (born 1986), Slovenian footballer
• Valter Bonča (born 1968), Slovenian racing cyclist
• Valter Borges (born 1988), Cape Verdean footballer
• Valter Chifu (born 1952), Romanian volleyball player
• Valter Costa (born 1949), Portuguese footballer
• Valter Dešpalj (1947–2023), Croatian cellist
• Valter Di Salvo (born 1963), Italian fitness coach
• Valter Ever (1902–1981), Estonian track and field athlete
• Valter Gabrielsen (1921–1999), Norwegian politician
• Valter Guchua (born 1975), Georgian footballer
• Valter Heuer (1928–2006), Estonian chess player, chess journalist and chess historian
• Valter Lang (born 1958), Estonian archaeologist
• Valter Lundgren (1917–1997), Swedish footballer
• Valter Matošević (born 1970), Croatian team handball player
• Valter Neeris (1915–1942), Estonian footballer
• Valter Ojakäär (1923–2016), Estonian composer, instrumentalist and author
• Valter Palm (1905–1994), Estonian boxer
• Valter Perić (1919–1945), Yugoslav partisan
• Valter Roman (1913–1983), Romanian communist activist and soldier
• Valter Sanaya (1925–1999), Soviet footballer
• Valter Skarsgård (born 1995), Swedish actor
• Valter Soosõrv (1903–1969), Estonian actor, theatre director and theatre historian
• Valter Tomaz Júnior (born 1978), Brazilian footballer
• Valter Wredberg, Swedish sprint canoer
• Valter Župan (born 1938), Croatian Catholic prelate

Surname

• Attila Valter (born 1998), Hungarian cyclist
• Edgar Valter (1929–2006), Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books

Fictional characters

• Valter, a character from a tactical role-playing game Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
• Valter Beilschmidt(Not a canon name, but it's used in the fandom), also known as Germania from the 2009 anime Hetalia

See also

• Valtteri
• Volter, another given name and surname
• Valtinho (disambiguation)
• Walter (name)
• Walters (disambiguation)