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To me, when I meet a Slavic person with the name Valentina, I always imagine it as having a "y". Valentina simply looks Spanish to me. Now they don't say it on this site, but Valentyna is a known legitimate Russian spelling; it's the proper translation from the Cyrillic alphabet.

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Thanks for the opinion though. I know if I met someone who didn't seem Slavic at all with the spelling Valentyna, I'd probably suspect it was a trendy spelling.