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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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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#715 · 1 in 4,184
- Texas#934 · 1 in 7,359
- Virginia#1,023 · 1 in 7,733
- Pennsylvania#1,071 · 1 in 8,999
- Florida#1,174 · 1 in 10,024
Best ever in a state: #508 in Kansas, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Colorado | #715 | 6 | 1 in 4,184 |
| Texas | #934 | 23 | 1 in 7,359 |
| Virginia | #1,023 | 5 | 1 in 7,733 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,071 | 6 | 1 in 8,999 |
| Florida | #1,174 | 9 | 1 in 10,024 |
| North Carolina | #1,205 | 5 | 1 in 9,789 |
| California | #1,238 | 15 | 1 in 12,641 |
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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
- 207 spots since 2024 (#1,459 → #1,252)
- 83 spots since 2020 (#1,335 → #1,252)
- 618 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Valor in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 85,082 of them was named Valor, which outranked 65.3% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,850Zunaira20
- #5,850Zuree20
- #5,850Zyanya20
- #6,083Valor19
- #6,083Aaminah19
- #6,083Aava19
- #6,083Abrar19
- #6,325Aamira18
- #6,325Adalyna18
- #6,325Addaline18
Tied with 241 names at #6,083; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 12,881 of them was named Valor, which outranked 90.5% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,325Malaki135
- #1,325Tariq135
- #1,325Teddy135
- #1,335Valor134
- #1,335Asaiah134
- #1,335Aydan134
- #1,335Elvis134
- #1,343Aleksander133
- #1,343Clifford133
- #1,343Gentry133
Tied with 7 names at #1,335; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.