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 | — | |
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| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | — | |
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| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
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| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#178 · 1 in 510
- Maryland#487 · 1 in 2,186
- New Jersey#539 · 1 in 2,613
- Florida#571 · 1 in 2,890
- New York#648 · 1 in 3,455
Best ever in a state: #172 in Rhode Island, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #178 | 7 | 1 in 510 |
| Maryland | #487 | 11 | 1 in 2,186 |
| New Jersey | #539 | 14 | 1 in 2,613 |
| Florida | #571 | 30 | 1 in 2,890 |
| New York | #648 | 26 | 1 in 3,455 |
| Virginia | #708 | 10 | 1 in 3,714 |
| California | #827 | 42 | 1 in 4,850 |
| Texas | #852 | 35 | 1 in 4,780 |
| Washington | #1,100 | 5 | 1 in 6,429 |
| North Carolina | #1,376 | 5 | 1 in 9,062 |
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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 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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 7,353 of them was named Valery, which outranked 94.3% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 379,548 of them was named Valery, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,022 names at #12,185; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.