Valen
- #4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births
- #1,609 for boys in 2025, 105 births
- Given to boys 73.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 105 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,372since 1959
Valen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 6 girls in 1951, 7 boys in 1959 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,987 | 26 | #1,609 | 105 |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 | #1,673 | 100 |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 | #1,668 | 102 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #1,892 | 83 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #1,943 | 77 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #2,094 | 67 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | #2,081 | 69 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | #1,981 | 74 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #1,958 | 73 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #2,145 | 64 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #2,528 | 49 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #2,370 | 54 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #2,551 | 48 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #3,377 | 32 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #3,105 | 37 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | — | #4,011 | 25 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,520 | 20 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,198 | 21 | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #4,602 | 18 |
| 2003 | — | #4,616 | 17 | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | #5,468 | 6 |
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| 1959 | — | #3,290 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Valen! It came in at #3,290, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1980, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Valen is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#718 · 1 in 4,083
- New York#1,297 · 1 in 10,553
- California#1,582 · 1 in 17,547
- Texas#2,080 · 1 in 25,007
Best ever in a state: #509 in Nevada, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #718 | 6 | 1 in 4,083 |
| New York | #1,297 | 8 | 1 in 10,553 |
| California | #1,582 | 10 | 1 in 17,547 |
| Texas | #2,080 | 7 | 1 in 25,007 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Valen
- 485 spots since 2020 (#2,094 → #1,609)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2025 at #1,609 (105 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,267 boys born in 2025 were named Valen (0.01%)
- 38.9% of all boys named Valen (534) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1999, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 7 | #3,290 (1959) | #3,290 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 22 | #5,468 (1981) | #6,688 |
| 1990s | 74 | #5,236 (1992) | #6,471 |
| 2000s | 205 | #3,105 (2009) | #4,458 |
| 2010s | 530 | #1,958 (2017) | #2,558 |
| 2020s | 534 | #1,609 (2025) | #1,813 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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