In 2025, 418 US boys were named Valentin, making it the 660th most common boys’ name of the year, up 88 places from #748 in 2024. That is 75 more than the 343 boys named Valentin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #614, reached in 2007. The most boys given the name in a single year was 418, in 2025. For comparison, it was #924 in 2015 and #884 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valentin in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 8 babies. In all, 11,723 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,425 babies named Valentin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,084 US boys were named Valentin; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 418. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,086 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Valentin ranked highest in California in 2025, at #329 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Valentino (11,784 babies since 1880) and Valentine (8,950 babies since 1880).