Val (given name)

Val
Origin
Word/name	Latin nomen Valentinus or Valerius, Old Norse Valdr or Vald
Region of origin	Italy, Sweden

Last updated October 12, 2025

Val is a variant of the feminine given names Valerie, Valeria, Valmai, Valentina, or Valene; as well as the masculine given names Valeri, Valentine, Valen, Valentino, or Valens.

Notable people

Val Ackerman (born 1959), American attorney, former basketball player, and first president of the Women's National Basketball Association
Val Bennett (died 1991), Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician
Val Bettin (1923–2021), American actor
Val A. Browning (1895–1994), American industrialist, philanthropist, and third generation gun innovator
Val Deakin, New Zealand ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher
Val Demings (born 1957), American politician (US representative from Florida)
Val Doonican (1927–2015), Irish singer
Val Fitch (1923-2015), Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
Val Gielgud (1900–1981), English actor, writer, director and broadcaster
Val Guest (1911–2006), British film director
Val Harris (1884–?), Irish football and Gaelic football player
Val Kilmer (1959–2025), American actor
Val Lehman (born 1943) Australian actress
Val Lewton (1904–1951), American film director
Val Mayerik (born 1950), American comic-book and commercial artist, co-creator of Marvel Comics' character Howard the Duck
Val McDermid (born 1955), Scottish crime novelist
Val Peterson (1903–1983), American politician and 26th Governor of Nebraska
Val Valentino (born 1956), American magician, illusionist, and actor
Val Venis, ring name of Canadian professional wrestler, Sean Morley
Val (sculptor), born Valérie Goutard

Val Armorr, a comic book martial artist known as Karate Kid
Val Pollard, in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale
Val Toriello, in the television situation comedy The Nanny
Val Cooper, in the Marvel Comics universe
Valene Ewing, in the American television series Dallas
Val Resnick, in the 1999 movie Payback
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, an espionage agent in the Marvel Comics universe
Darryl's love interest on the U.S. TV series The Office
The title character in the comic strip Prince Valiant
A fictional race in Arcanis, a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons game
A character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, the sister of the wife of Mance Rayder
Val Bilzerian, in the adult animated sitcom Big Mouth
Val Thundershock, a character from Trolls: TrollsTopia
Val Little, a character from Monsters at Work
Val Ortiz, a character from Inside Out 2