In 2025, 21 US girls were named Valena, making it the 5,898th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,155 places from #11,053 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 9 girls named Valena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,802, reached in 1907. The most girls given the name in a single year was 21, in 2025. For comparison, it was #14,390 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valena in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 7 babies. In all, 684 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 99 babies named Valena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 77 US girls were named Valena; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.