Valor
- #5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births
- #1,252 for boys in 2025, 159 births
- Given to boys 88.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 159 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,492since 1988
Valor over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 | #1,252 | 159 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | #1,459 | 124 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #1,465 | 123 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #1,737 | 96 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #1,554 | 112 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #1,335 | 134 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #1,624 | 101 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #1,606 | 102 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #1,681 | 94 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #1,706 | 91 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #2,402 | 53 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,715 | 43 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2011 | — | #4,983 | 18 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,741 | 15 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,436 | 13 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,249 | 17 | |
| 2007 | — | #12,367 | 5 | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,226 | 12 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,715 | 10 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
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| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
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| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Valor! It came in at #7,270, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Valor is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#535 · 1 in 2,685
- Arkansas#555 · 1 in 2,517
- Alabama#685 · 1 in 3,586
- Pennsylvania#792 · 1 in 5,226
- Minnesota#807 · 1 in 4,900
Best ever in a state: #508 in Kansas, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #535 | 10 | 1 in 2,685 |
| Arkansas | #555 | 5 | 1 in 2,517 |
| Alabama | #685 | 6 | 1 in 3,586 |
| Pennsylvania | #792 | 10 | 1 in 5,226 |
| Minnesota | #807 | 5 | 1 in 4,900 |
| Indiana | #844 | 6 | 1 in 5,277 |
| North Carolina | #873 | 9 | 1 in 5,719 |
| Georgia | #990 | 8 | 1 in 6,278 |
| Tennessee | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 7,354 |
| Texas | #1,169 | 18 | 1 in 9,725 |
| Ohio | #1,267 | 5 | 1 in 10,507 |
| California | #1,998 | 7 | 1 in 25,068 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Valor
- 83 spots since 2020 (#1,335 → #1,252)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2025 at #1,252 (159 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,743 boys born in 2025 were named Valor (0.01%)
- 50.1% of all boys named Valor (748) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 5 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,270 |
| 1990s | 12 | #7,792 (1995) | #8,136 |
| 2000s | 90 | #5,249 (2008) | #7,629 |
| 2010s | 637 | #1,606 (2018) | #2,714 |
| 2020s | 748 | #1,252 (2025) | #1,467 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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