Valery

Where Valery comes from

From French Valéry, from Latin Valerius. Doublet of Valerius.
— Wiktionary's entry for Valery
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Valery through the years
  1. 1873
    Valery Bryusov born
    Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian
  2. 1920
    First appearance
    #4,398 among girls with 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 on, more girls have.
  4. 1949
    Valery Leontiev born
    Russian singer
  5. 2006
    Peak, #716
    395 babies named Valery, the most in any year.
  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.