Italian, Spanish, Brazilian (Portuguese) and Slavic (Russian Валерия) extremely popular name, comes from the Latin word valeo/valere denotation - "healthy, strong, powerful, influential; will be strong and healthy", feminine form of the name Valerius. Valeria gens - was a patrician family at Ancient Rome.

Saint Valeria of Milan (d. 1st or 2nd century) according to Christian tradition, was the wife of Vitalis of Milan, and the mother of Saint Gervase and Saint Protase, although other traditions make her a virgin martyr rather than a wife and mother.
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