Meaning not yet researched.
Val: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #527 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #527 in 1952; #4,692 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Val in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,692 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #527.
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Val: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #527 in 1952 · most boys in one year: 178 (1952).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Val, making it the 4,692nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 944 places from #5,636 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 17 boys named Val in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #527, reached in 1952. That year also had the most boys given the name: 178. For comparison, it was #6,652 in 2015 and #580 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Val in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #993, reached in 1958. That year also had the most girls given the name: 110. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,573 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Val in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 7,406 US babies have been given the name, 24% of them girls and 76% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,178 babies named Val.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 126 US boys were named Val; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Valerie (273,922 babies since 1880), Valeria (80,157 babies since 1880), Valentina (65,166 babies since 1880) and Valentine (8,950 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Valdemar, Valene and Vail are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Valdemar (964), Valene (901), Vail (547), Vale (539), Vala (216), Vali (190), Valri (36), Valle (34), Valo (21), Valens (16), Vaile (5), Vayle (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Val in the open dataset we use.
Val is listed as a nickname for Valentina, Valeri, Valeria, Valerie.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 22 | #4,692 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,121 | 17 | #5,636 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,049 | 19 | #5,241 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,167 | 16 | #5,849 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #8,116 |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #11,926 |
| 2019 | — | — | 10 | #8,164 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,607 |
| 2017 | — | — | 12 | #7,068 |
| 2016 | — | — | 6 | #12,076 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,652 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #8,080 |
| 2012 | — | — | 7 | #10,688 |
| 2011 | — | — | 8 | #9,544 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,628 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,945 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #12,457 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,732 |
| 2006 | — | — | 11 | #7,391 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #6,200 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,499 |
| 2003 | — | — | 13 | #5,865 |
| 2002 | — | — | 14 | #5,382 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,990 |
| 2000 | — | — | 21 | #3,912 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #5,017 |
| 1998 | — | — | 27 | #3,014 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #4,046 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,601 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,383 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,082 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,340 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,558 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,214 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,766 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #4,012 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,388 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,944 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,433 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,428 | 16 | #3,063 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,096 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,482 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,274 |
| 1981 | — | — | 26 | #2,085 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,341 | 23 | #2,280 |
| 1979 | — | — | 28 | #1,940 |
| 1978 | — | — | 21 | #2,273 |
| 1977 | — | — | 36 | #1,568 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,841 | 16 | #2,705 |
| 1975 | — | — | 27 | #1,833 |
| 1974 | — | — | 36 | #1,469 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,058 | 41 | #1,310 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,782 | 41 | #1,325 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,119 | 52 | #1,147 |
| 1970 | 11 | #5,047 | 58 | #1,079 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,186 | 62 | #981 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,307 | 48 | #1,082 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,326 | 68 | #874 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,933 | 64 | #914 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,535 | 73 | #865 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,973 | 77 | #874 |
| 1963 | 59 | #1,460 | 97 | #778 |
| 1962 | 59 | #1,454 | 102 | #759 |
| 1961 | 96 | #1,125 | 88 | #816 |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,279 | 122 | #712 |
| 1959 | 93 | #1,115 | 130 | #670 |
| 1958 | 110 | #993 | 127 | #676 |
| 1957 | 91 | #1,099 | 142 | #647 |
| 1956 | 85 | #1,128 | 168 | #589 |
| 1955 | 73 | #1,174 | 150 | #606 |
| 1954 | 69 | #1,212 | 148 | #609 |
| 1953 | 59 | #1,275 | 156 | #575 |
| 1952 | 48 | #1,419 | 178 | #527 |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,526 | 138 | #595 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,573 | 138 | #580 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,964 | 132 | #595 |
| 1948 | 24 | #2,003 | 129 | #591 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,041 | 116 | #642 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,225 | 105 | #629 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,871 | 71 | #733 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,284 | 87 | #666 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,348 | 71 | #779 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,665 | 103 | #625 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,540 | 74 | #722 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,895 | 84 | #666 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,199 | 80 | #666 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,869 | 78 | #689 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,780 | 71 | #721 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,502 | 75 | #687 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,297 | 77 | #692 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,775 | 63 | #786 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,903 | 67 | #750 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,679 | 69 | #761 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,098 | 56 | #855 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,828 | 65 | #809 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,759 | 44 | #1,043 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,371 | 57 | #890 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,253 | 52 | #978 |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,028 | 39 | #1,157 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,607 | 40 | #1,120 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,639 | 37 | #1,202 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,107 | 61 | #881 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,985 | 37 | #1,193 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,640 | 32 | #1,326 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,454 | 37 | #1,207 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,990 | 28 | #1,381 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,770 | 34 | #1,210 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,864 | 37 | #1,108 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,101 | 35 | #1,117 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,247 | 28 | #1,261 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,575 | 18 | #1,484 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,153 | 24 | #1,045 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,402 | 22 | #997 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,835 | 5 | #1,980 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,574 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,430 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,536 | 7 | #1,207 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #928 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,105 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,387 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,295 |
| 1902 | — | — | 9 | #856 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,154 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,280 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #847 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #988 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,097 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #1,090 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,087 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).