Valter

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| gender = masculine

| meaning = "rule" + "army"

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| origin = Germanic

| related names = Walther, Walter, Valtyr

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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 Giuliani (born 1960), Italian astronomer
Valter Guchua (born 1975), Georgian footballer
Valter Heuer (1928–2006), Estonian chess player, chess journalist and chess historian
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