Vale is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Val, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Vale: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,382 in 1925.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,382 in 1925; #5,831 in 2025. About 55% of babies named Vale in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,831 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1925, at #3,382.
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Vale: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,382 in 1925 · most boys in one year: 16 (2025).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Vale, making it the 5,831st most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,436 places from #8,267 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 10 boys named Vale in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,382, reached in 1925. The most boys given the name in a single year was 16, in 2025. For comparison, it was #7,461 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Vale, making it the 8,323rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,409 places from #6,914 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 17 girls named Vale in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,320, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 49. For comparison, it was #3,590 in 2015 and #5,264 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vale in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 10 babies. In all, 539 US babies have been given the name, 63% of them girls and 37% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 269 babies named Vale.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 103 US boys were named Vale; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Val (7,406 babies since 1880).
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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Vale in the open dataset we use.
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 | 13 | #8,323 | 16 | #5,831 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,914 | 10 | #8,267 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,954 | 9 | #8,866 |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,012 | 11 | #7,724 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,395 | 10 | #8,117 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,253 | 14 | #6,265 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,336 | 11 | #7,594 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,450 | 8 | #9,608 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,377 | 8 | #9,628 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,320 | 6 | #12,078 |
| 2015 | 44 | #3,590 | 11 | #7,461 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,486 | 9 | #8,737 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #14,105 |
| 2011 | — | — | 8 | #9,545 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #11,240 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,281 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #5,003 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,403 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,601 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,477 | — | — |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,364 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,798 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,264 | — | — |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,382 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,799 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,132 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,260 | 5 | #4,551 |
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).