Vale
- #7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
- Given to girls 63.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 49 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 340since 1917
Vale over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #4,304 | 33 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #3,280 | 49 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #3,533 | 44 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #8,130 | 9 |
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| 2012 | — | #12,274 | 5 | |
| 2011 | — | #8,767 | 8 | |
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| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
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| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,155 | 8 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
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| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | #3,981 | 5 |
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First appearance
1917
The first year at least five girls were named Vale! It came in at #4,594, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1949, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Vale is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Vale in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Vale
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,243 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #7,885)
- 3,716 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #7,885)
- 4,352 spots since 2015 (#3,533 → #7,885)
Rise & fade · girls
99 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2016 at #3,280 (49 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 36,164
- Highest: 1 in 36,164 girls born in 2016 were named Vale (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 59.7% of all girls named Vale (203) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,594 (1917) | #4,594 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 6 | #4,738 (1950) | #4,738 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,567 (1961) | #6,567 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 203 | #3,280 (2016) | #4,783 |
| 2020s | 121 | #4,169 (2020) | #6,377 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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