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.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,531 · 1 in 48,428
Best ever in a state: #509 in Nevada, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #2,531 | 5 | 1 in 48,428 |
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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
- 64 spots since 2024 (#1,673 → #1,609)
- 485 spots since 2020 (#2,094 → #1,609)
- 919 spots since 2015 (#2,528 → #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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Valen in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 229,639 of them was named Valen, which outranked 38.5% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,459Zyair9
- #11,459Zynasia9
- #11,459Zyrihanna9
- #12,429Valen8
- #12,429Aaleeyah8
- #12,429Aalina8
- #12,429Aamiya8
- #13,704Aadyn7
- #13,704Aahna7
- #13,704Aairah7
Tied with 1,274 names at #12,429; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 53,610 of them was named Valen, which outranked 78.6% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,045Vansh38
- #3,045Wilder38
- #3,045Ziyad38
- #3,105Valen37
- #3,105Abrahan37
- #3,105Aiyden37
- #3,105Alphonso37
- #3,162Abdoulaye36
- #3,162Adrean36
- #3,162Agastya36
Tied with 56 names at #3,105; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.