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Valerian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,821 in 1918.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,821 in 1918; #4,526 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Valerian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,526 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1918, at #1,821.
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Valerian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,821 in 1918 · most boys in one year: 24 (2018).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Valerian, making it the 4,526th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,639 places from #6,165 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 15 boys named Valerian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,821, reached in 1918. The most boys given the name in a single year was 24, in 2018. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valerian in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 503 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 101 babies named Valerian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 138 US boys were named Valerian; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 23 | #4,526 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #6,165 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,864 |
| 2022 | — | — | 18 | #5,424 |
| 2021 | — | — | 17 | #5,542 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,266 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,386 |
| 2018 | — | — | 24 | #4,343 |
| 2010 | — | — | 5 | #14,131 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #14,375 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #13,113 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,248 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,269 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,404 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,486 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,332 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,776 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,221 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,646 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,751 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,872 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,722 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,192 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,118 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,468 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #3,092 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,318 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #3,160 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,526 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,619 |
| 1934 | — | — | 15 | #1,926 |
| 1933 | — | — | 11 | #2,362 |
| 1932 | — | — | 10 | #2,628 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #3,084 |
| 1930 | — | — | 10 | #2,771 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,964 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,638 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #2,025 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,181 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,627 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,800 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,474 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,845 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,949 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,374 |
| 1918 | — | — | 19 | #1,821 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,551 | 7 | #3,525 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,529 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #3,054 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,895 |
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).