Valencia
#1,721 for girls in 2025, 118 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 261 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,198since 1919
Valencia over time
Rank among girls' names. Valencia has never cracked the top 600 here.
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 | #1,721 | 118 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,264 | 184 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,273 | 180 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,206 | 200 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,354 | 163 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,432 | 152 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,307 | 175 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,692 | 122 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,665 | 129 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,815 | 114 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,919 | 105 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,049 | 95 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,096 | 91 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,078 | 92 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,758 | 116 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,978 | 101 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,934 | 108 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,880 | 113 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,829 | 116 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,672 | 126 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,819 | 107 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,795 | 106 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,590 | 121 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,500 | 126 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,444 | 130 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,447 | 127 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,309 | 138 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,359 | 128 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,206 | 149 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,269 | 137 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,235 | 138 | — | |
| 1994 | #965 | 192 | — | |
| 1993 | #999 | 185 | — | |
| 1992 | #910 | 215 | — | |
| 1991 | #874 | 227 | — | |
| 1990 | #814 | 242 | — | |
| 1989 | #861 | 216 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #834 | 216 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #842 | 207 | — | |
| 1986 | #802 | 209 | — | |
| 1985 | #696 | 251 | — | |
| 1984 | #851 | 180 | — | |
| 1983 | #848 | 180 | — | |
| 1982 | #985 | 150 | — | |
| 1981 | #998 | 146 | — | |
| 1980 | #902 | 167 | — | |
| 1979 | #942 | 156 | — | |
| 1978 | #981 | 141 | — | |
| 1977 | #987 | 138 | — | |
| 1976 | #885 | 149 | — | |
| 1975 | #899 | 146 | — | |
| 1974 | #834 | 158 | — | |
| 1973 | #727 | 194 | — | |
| 1972 | #751 | 186 | — | |
| 1971 | #713 | 214 | — | |
| 1970 | #633 | 261 | — | |
| 1969 | #633 | 244 | — | |
| 1968 | #720 | 184 | — | |
| 1967 | #650 | 217 | — | |
| 1966 | #657 | 215 | — | |
| 1965 | #647 | 229 | — | |
| 1964 | #698 | 219 | — | |
| 1963 | #687 | 216 | — | |
| 1962 | #739 | 194 | — | |
| 1961 | #774 | 184 | — | |
| 1960 | #796 | 167 | — | |
| 1959 | #768 | 176 | — | |
| 1958 | #730 | 183 | — | |
| 1957 | #838 | 147 | — | |
| 1956 | #811 | 150 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,004 | 99 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,086 | 82 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,241 | 61 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,386 | 49 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,383 | 46 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,333 | 47 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,845 | 27 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,255 | 19 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,200 | 20 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,217 | 10 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,572 | 11 | — | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,305 | 13 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,289 | 13 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,688 | 10 | — | |
| 1932 | #2,490 | 12 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,876 | 18 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,023 | 17 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,737 | 11 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,784 | 22 | — | |
| 1927 | #924 | 65 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,076 | 18 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | — | |
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| 1921 | #4,023 | 7 | — | |
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| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Valencia! It came in at #4,814, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1920, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Valencia is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#183 · 1 in 913
- Alabama#246 · 1 in 1,511
- Georgia#251 · 1 in 1,609
- Louisiana#422 · 1 in 2,575
- Illinois#580 · 1 in 4,547
Best ever in a state: #113 in District of Columbia, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #183 | 15 | 1 in 913 |
| Alabama | #246 | 15 | 1 in 1,511 |
| Georgia | #251 | 26 | 1 in 1,609 |
| Louisiana | #422 | 10 | 1 in 2,575 |
| Illinois | #580 | 17 | 1 in 4,547 |
| Tennessee | #581 | 6 | 1 in 4,965 |
| Michigan | #617 | 11 | 1 in 5,495 |
| Indiana | #628 | 6 | 1 in 5,723 |
| Florida | #678 | 14 | 1 in 5,502 |
| New Jersey | #825 | 6 | 1 in 7,998 |
| Texas | #829 | 19 | 1 in 7,020 |
| North Carolina | #832 | 5 | 1 in 8,137 |
| California | #1,256 | 19 | 1 in 12,841 |
| New York | #1,263 | 9 | 1 in 13,198 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Valencia
- 457 spots since 2024 (#1,264 → #1,721)
- 289 spots since 2020 (#1,432 → #1,721)
- 198 spots since 2015 (#1,919 → #1,721)
- Biggest jump: 1,152 spots in 1927 (#2,076 → #924)
- Biggest drop: 860 spots in 1928 (#924 → #1,784)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1970 at #633 (261 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 28 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1956–1994
- Highest: 1 in 6,698 girls born in 1970 were named Valencia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,621 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 17.0% of all girls named Valencia (2,069) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,814 (1919) | #4,814 |
| 1920s | 128 | #924 (1927) | #2,753 |
| 1930s | 97 | #1,876 (1931) | #2,562 |
| 1940s | 126 | #1,845 (1949) | #2,957 |
| 1950s | 1,040 | #730 (1958) | #1,058 |
| 1960s | 2,069 | #633 (1969) | #700 |
| 1970s | 1,743 | #633 (1970) | #835 |
| 1980s | 1,922 | #696 (1985) | #862 |
| 1990s | 1,751 | #814 (1990) | #1,094 |
| 2000s | 1,180 | #1,444 (2001) | #1,691 |
| 2010s | 1,140 | #1,307 (2019) | #1,836 |
| 2020s | 997 | #1,206 (2022) | #1,375 |
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.
Valencia in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 8,535 of them was named Valencia, which outranked 94.1% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 333,488 of them was named Valencia, which outranked 24.8% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,229Zekiel7
- #6,229Zubin7
- #6,229Zvi7
- #6,941Valencia6
- #6,941Aaran6
- #6,941Abayomi6
- #6,941Abrham6
- #7,905Aakeem5
- #7,905Aaric5
- #7,905Aaronmichael5
Tied with 963 names at #6,941; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.