Meaning not yet researched.
Valen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 105 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,619 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 80% of babies named Valen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,619 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Valen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 105 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,619 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 105 (2025).
In 2025, 105 US boys were named Valen, making it the 1,619th most common boys’ name of the year, up 65 places from #1,684 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 100 boys named Valen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,619, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 105. For comparison, it was #2,562 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Valen, making it the 5,088th most common girls’ name of the year, up 342 places from #5,430 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 24 girls named Valen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,281, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 26, in 2025. For comparison, it was #8,909 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valen in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 6 babies. In all, 1,880 US babies have been given the name, 27% of them girls and 73% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 660 babies named Valen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 814 US boys were named Valen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 105. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,267 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Valen ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #801 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Vallen, Valyn and Valon are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Vallen (317), Valyn (301), Valon (240), Valeen (140), Valin (138), Valynn (131), Vaylen (124), Valine (105), Vallon (65), Vaelyn (65), Vallyn (33), Vaelin (32), and more.
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 Valen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 6 | #801 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,397 | — |
| California | 10 | #1,677 | #2,248 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,265 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,088 | 105 | #1,619 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,430 | 100 | #1,684 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,735 | 102 | #1,680 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,295 | 83 | #1,906 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,237 | 77 | #1,960 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,197 | 67 | #2,111 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,971 | 69 | #2,109 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,502 | 74 | #1,992 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,422 | 73 | #1,974 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,958 | 64 | #2,164 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,909 | 49 | #2,562 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,901 | 54 | #2,399 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,502 | 39 | #2,951 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,193 | 48 | #2,592 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,416 | 28 | #3,788 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,214 | 32 | #3,447 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,626 | 37 | #3,159 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,751 | 26 | #4,033 |
| 2007 | — | — | 25 | #4,119 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,667 |
| 2005 | — | — | 21 | #4,320 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,648 | 18 | #4,782 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,803 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,311 | 15 | #5,119 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,446 | 13 | #5,653 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,944 | 13 | #5,566 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,306 | 9 | #7,100 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,376 | 10 | #6,289 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,627 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,783 | 8 | #7,101 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,733 | 7 | #7,758 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,771 | 6 | #8,752 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,557 | 7 | #7,590 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,440 | 10 | #5,634 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,240 | 6 | #8,193 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,213 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,278 | 5 | #9,161 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,269 | 6 | #7,225 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,255 | 5 | #8,085 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,534 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #6,021 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,733 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,281 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,937 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,308 | 6 | #6,226 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,597 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,368 | — | — |
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).