Valarie

Where Valarie comes from

The dictionaries list Valarie as a given name — a female given name from Latin, a nonstandard spelling variant of Valerie — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #2,140 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Valarie Pettiford born
    American actor and singer
  3. 1964
    Peak, #379
    641 babies named Valarie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #536.
  5. 1995
    Valarie Allman born
    American discus thrower
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, a nonstandard spelling variant of Valerie.
Namesakes
  • Valarie Allman · American discus thrower, born 1995
  • Valarie Pettiford · American actor and singer, born 1960
  • Valarie Rae Miller · American actress, born 1974
  • Valarie Hodges · American politician in Louisiana, born 1955
  • Valarie Zeithaml · American economist, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.