Rising

Valentin

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#660
418 boys
2015
#924
rank
1950
#884
rank

Valentin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 418 in 2025. Its best rank was #614 in 2007.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #614 in 2007; #660 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Valentin in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#660 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #614.

Babies in 2025
418
Since 1880
11,723
Years on record
114

Babies named Valentin, every year since 1880

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Boys

Valentin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 418 boys in 2025. Peak: #614 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 418 (2025).

About the name Valentin

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).

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Valentin in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Valentin by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 32 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
California111#329#451
Arizona24#330#722
Texas100#371#554
Connecticut6#495—
Colorado12#499—
Oklahoma9#503—
Nebraska5#510—
Utah8#558—
Washington13#570#1,093
Oregon6#598—
Illinois15#631#979
Iowa5#658—
North Carolina12#768—
Indiana8#770—
Tennessee8#836—
Minnesota5#923—
Georgia8#1,078—
Florida12#1,121#963
New York7#1,560#1,152

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——418#660
2024——343#748
2023——374#710
2022——315#800
2021——291#823
2020——309#771
2019——269#838
2018——265#842
2017——229#924
2016——271#836
2015——232#924
2014——212#985
2013——237#881
2012——231#901
2011——206#964
2010——273#798
2009——319#734
2008——380#646
2007——404#614
2006——212#911
2005——184#952
2004——163#1,012
2003——180#920
2002——149#1,032
2001——154#996
2000——160#957
1999——167#902
1998——141#980
1997——167#851
1996——146#907
1995——135#958
1994——153#870
1993——124#974
1992——116#1,016
1991——134#908
1990——131#903
1989——119#936
1988——84#1,091
1987——93#989
1986——83#1,022
1985——86#991
1984——95#908
1983——91#929
1982——85#980
1981——117#811
1980——95#918
1979——71#1,055
1978——64#1,098
1977——66#1,070
1976——88#889
1975——69#993
1974——64#1,034
1973——74#940
1972——56#1,096
1971——59#1,069
1970——60#1,061
1969——63#971
1968——50#1,055
1967——48#1,068
1966——48#1,070
1965——45#1,125
1964——57#1,004
1963——47#1,137
1962——43#1,202
1961——51#1,106
1960——43#1,209
1959——42#1,210
1958——50#1,090
1957——48#1,116
1956——47#1,118
1955——33#1,338
1954——49#1,080
1953——37#1,243
1952——36#1,243
1951——44#1,095
1950——61#884
1949——40#1,126
1948——36#1,215
1947——38#1,189
1946——28#1,353
1945——35#1,119
1944——17#1,731
1943——34#1,185
1942——34#1,212
1941——21#1,527
1940——27#1,308
1939——29#1,236
1938——31#1,195
1937——20#1,573
1936——30#1,224
1935——28#1,293
1934——46#941
1933——27#1,308
1932——31#1,234
1931——28#1,332
1930——30#1,328
1929——28#1,375
1928——28#1,411
1927——38#1,176
1926——33#1,277
1925——24#1,578
1924——28#1,454
1923——22#1,693
1922——21#1,759
1921——15#2,257
1920——18#1,957
1919——16#2,053
1918——16#2,066
1917——17#1,895
1916——6#3,857
1915——17#1,780
1914——12#1,968
1913——11#1,796
1912——8#2,036

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).