Valery
#743 for girls in 2025, 366 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 98.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 395 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,825since 1920
Valery over time
Rank among girls' names. Valery has never cracked the top 700 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 | #743 | 366 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #784 | 359 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #823 | 335 | — | |
| 2022 | #800 | 352 | — | |
| 2021 | #891 | 303 | — | |
| 2020 | #904 | 291 | — | |
| 2019 | #878 | 306 | — | |
| 2018 | #992 | 264 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,082 | 234 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,078 | 241 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,209 | 206 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,261 | 191 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,068 | 232 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,188 | 207 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,096 | 224 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,025 | 244 | — | |
| 2009 | #995 | 266 | — | |
| 2008 | #890 | 312 | — | |
| 2007 | #834 | 343 | — | |
| 2006 | #716 | 395 | — | |
| 2005 | #976 | 251 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,244 | 175 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,386 | 144 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,411 | 136 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,489 | 126 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,551 | 115 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,560 | 108 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,867 | 82 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,102 | 67 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,229 | 60 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,125 | 63 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,255 | 58 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,489 | 50 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,351 | 55 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,156 | 35 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,677 | 34 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #2,552 | 35 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #2,901 | 31 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,083 | 25 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #2,602 | 30 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,629 | 27 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,523 | 28 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,296 | 34 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,203 | 36 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,871 | 44 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,855 | 41 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,682 | 46 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,796 | 40 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,715 | 43 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,610 | 50 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,015 | 34 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,858 | 38 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #1,598 | 50 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,597 | 49 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,499 | 52 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,417 | 56 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,681 | 41 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #1,506 | 50 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #1,579 | 42 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #1,909 | 30 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,783 | 31 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #1,578 | 37 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,805 | 29 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,002 | 23 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #1,845 | 27 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,329 | 18 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #3,061 | 12 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,880 | 12 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | #3,113 | 6 |
| 1938 | #2,730 | 10 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 | — | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | — | |
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Valery! It came in at #4,398, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1921, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Valery is popular in 1979
No state had 5 or more girls named Valery in 1979, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Valery
- 41 spots since 2024 (#784 → #743)
- 161 spots since 2020 (#904 → #743)
- 466 spots since 2015 (#1,209 → #743)
- Biggest jump: 268 spots in 2005 (#1,244 → #976)
- Biggest drop: 118 spots in 2007 (#716 → #834)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2006 at #716 (395 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,391 girls born in 2025 were named Valery (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #716 in 2006, was only 1 in 4,813 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.6% of all girls named Valery (2,349) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 35 | #3,561 (1927) | #4,486 |
| 1930s | 51 | #2,730 (1938) | #3,790 |
| 1940s | 122 | #1,845 (1949) | #3,020 |
| 1950s | 391 | #1,417 (1958) | #1,676 |
| 1960s | 435 | #1,597 (1960) | #1,760 |
| 1970s | 278 | #2,203 (1970) | #2,802 |
| 1980s | 279 | #2,552 (1983) | #3,273 |
| 1990s | 616 | #1,560 (1999) | #2,312 |
| 2000s | 2,263 | #716 (2006) | #1,149 |
| 2010s | 2,349 | #878 (2019) | #1,088 |
| 2020s | 2,006 | #743 (2025) | #824 |
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.
Valery in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
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1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 69,794 of them was named Valery, which outranked 71.2% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,333Yulonda24
- #3,333Zena24
- #3,333Zoila24
- #3,442Valery23
- #3,442Adella23
- #3,442Adelle23
- #3,442Allana23
- #3,541Alonda22
- #3,541Alondra22
- #3,541Alva22
Tied with 98 names at #3,442; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.