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 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)

References

eo:Valtero

fi:Valtteri