Valery

Where Valery comes from

From French Valéry, from Latin Valerius. Doublet of Valerius.
— Wiktionary's entry for Valery
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1873
    Valery Bryusov born
    Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian
  2. 1920
    First appearance
    #4,398 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1920
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1949
    Valery Leontiev born
    Russian singer
  5. 2006
    Peak, #716
    395 babies named Valery — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,261.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from French [in turn from Latin].
  • A female given name from French [in turn from Latin].
Namesakes
  • Valery Leontiev · Russian singer, born 1949
  • Valery Bryusov · Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian, 1873–1924
  • Valery Gerasimov · Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, born 1955
  • Valery Gergiev · Russian conductor and opera company director, born 1953
  • Valery Bykovsky · Soviet cosmonaut, 1934–2019

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.