Valkyrie
#1,911 for girls in 2025, 101 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 153 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,313since 1992
Valkyrie over time
Rank among girls' names. Valkyrie has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,911 | 101 |
| 2024 | #1,810 | 111 |
| 2023 | #1,506 | 143 |
| 2022 | #1,451 | 153 |
| 2021 | #1,816 | 111 |
| 2020 | #1,623 | 128 |
| 2019 | #1,850 | 109 |
| 2018 | #2,404 | 75 |
| 2017 | #2,713 | 63 |
| 2016 | #3,326 | 48 |
| 2015 | #3,705 | 41 |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
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| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 |
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| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
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| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
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| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
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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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#819 · 1 in 3,903
- Ohio#1,285 · 1 in 8,101
- North Carolina#1,412 · 1 in 9,015
- Georgia#1,484 · 1 in 9,057
- California#1,579 · 1 in 11,635
Best ever in a state: #436 in Utah, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | #819 | 8 | 1 in 3,903 |
| Ohio | #1,285 | 6 | 1 in 8,101 |
| North Carolina | #1,412 | 5 | 1 in 9,015 |
| Georgia | #1,484 | 5 | 1 in 9,057 |
| California | #1,579 | 15 | 1 in 11,635 |
| Florida | #1,618 | 7 | 1 in 11,943 |
| Texas | #1,893 | 11 | 1 in 14,134 |
| New York | #2,090 | 5 | 1 in 16,250 |
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See more about Valkyrie
- 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)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2022 at #1,451 (153 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 56.9% of all girls named Valkyrie (747) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 22 | #8,734 (1992) | #10,641 |
| 2000s | 92 | #7,066 (2009) | #10,905 |
| 2010s | 452 | #1,850 (2019) | #4,371 |
| 2020s | 747 | #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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 14,783 of them was named Valkyrie, which outranked 89.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,801Sama112
- #1,801Samaira112
- #1,801Yamilet112
- #1,816Valkyrie111
- #1,816Anylah111
- #1,816Audriana111
- #1,816Blakeleigh111
- #1,830Azula110
- #1,830Carleigh110
- #1,830Constance110
Tied with 13 names at #1,816; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.