Valkyrie

#1,911 for girls in 2025, 101 births

Peak · girls
2022 · 153 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,313
since 1992

Valkyrie over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Valkyrie has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,911101
2024#1,810111
2023#1,506143
2022#1,451153
2021#1,816111
2020#1,623128
2019#1,850109
2018#2,40475
2017#2,71363
2016#3,32648
2015#3,70541
2014#4,17835
2013#6,46219
2012#5,25326
2011#7,43616
2010#6,38220
2009#7,06618
2008#10,08411
2007#7,09218
2006#13,6067
2005#10,9219
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2002#15,4325
2001#9,35110
2000#10,7458
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First appearance
1992

The first year at least five girls were named Valkyrie! It came in at #8,734, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1993–1996, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Valkyrie is popular in 2019

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedRIOregon: #631 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 2,772 girlsORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedCTCalifornia: #1,155 for girls · 24 births · 1 in 7,690 girlsCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedUTColorado: #874 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 4,397 girlsCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedDEArizona: #746 for girls · 8 births · 1 in 3,578 girlsAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedHITexas: #2,545 for girls · 7 births · 1 in 22,651 girlsTXFlorida: fewer than 5 girls named Valkyrie, so not publishedFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Oregon#631 · 1 in 2,772
  2. Arizona#746 · 1 in 3,578
  3. Colorado#874 · 1 in 4,397
  4. California#1,155 · 1 in 7,690
  5. Texas#2,545 · 1 in 22,651

Best ever in a state: #436 in Utah, 2023.

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Oregon#63151 in 2,772
Arizona#74681 in 3,578
Colorado#87451 in 4,397
California#1,155241 in 7,690
Texas#2,54571 in 22,651
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See more about Valkyrie
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 101 spots since 2024 (#1,810 → #1,911)
  • 288 spots since 2020 (#1,623 → #1,911)
  • 1,794 spots since 2015 (#3,705 → #1,911)
Rise & fade · girls
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1992
  • Peaked 2022 at #1,451 (153 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,720
  • Highest: 1 in 10,720 girls born in 2022 were named Valkyrie (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 15,914 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 56.9% of all girls named Valkyrie (747) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s22#8,734 (1992)#10,641
2000s92#7,066 (2009)#10,905
2010s452#1,850 (2019)#4,371
2020s747#1,451 (2022)#1,686

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.

Valkyrie in 2019

girls
#1,850
109 births · 1 in 15,398 girls

Top girls' names in 2019

  1. #1Olivia18,577
  2. #2Emma17,226
  3. #3Ava14,549
  4. #4Sophia13,821
  5. #5Isabella13,407
  6. #6Charlotte13,239
  7. #7Amelia12,944
  8. #8Mia12,508
  9. #9Harper10,497
  10. #10Evelyn10,443
  11. #1,850Valkyrie109
More about 2019

girls

1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 15,398 of them was named Valkyrie, which outranked 89.7% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Valkyrie
  1. #1,844Malky110
  2. #1,844Margarita110
  3. #1,844Rio110
  4. #1,850Valkyrie109
  5. #1,850Blessyn109
  6. #1,850Cienna109
  7. #1,850Fatimah109
  8. #1,864Analise108
  9. #1,864Aylah108
  10. #1,864Bowie108

Tied with 13 names at #1,850; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,081Amoura#2,059 → #978
  2. ↑ 553Theodora#1,406 → #853
  3. ↑ 456Navy#1,269 → #813
  4. ↑ 415Emani#1,371 → #956
  5. ↑ 403Yaritza#1,216 → #813
Fallers
  1. ↓ 451Emmarie#990 → #1,441
  2. ↓ 368Saniyah#934 → #1,302
  3. ↓ 252Tatiana#692 → #944
  4. ↓ 229Zhavia#879 → #1,108
  5. ↓ 219Jayden#979 → #1,198

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2019 →