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Valerie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,221 in 2025. Its best rank was #60 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #60 in 1959; #127 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Valerie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#127 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #60.
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Valerie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,221 girls in 2025. Peak: #60 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 7,302 (1959).
In 2025, 2,221 US girls were named Valerie, making it the 127th most common girls’ name of the year, up 20 places from #147 in 2024. That is 230 more than the 1,991 girls named Valerie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #60, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7,302. For comparison, it was #171 in 2015 and #116 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valerie in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 8 babies. In all, 273,922 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 56,739 babies named Valerie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19,357 US girls were named Valerie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,221. In 2025 that was about 1 in 724 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Valerie ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #68 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Valeria (80,157 babies since 1880), Valarie (18,714 babies since 1880), Val (7,406 babies since 1880) and Valery (8,932 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Valeri, Vallerie and Waleska are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Val.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Valeri (1,940), Vallerie (1,122), Waleska (542), Valerio (502), Valori (297), Valaria (272), Valaree (242), Vallarie (138), Valerya (134), Valoree (129), Valerye (122), Valeree (101), 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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 6 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 30 | #68 | #97 |
| Florida | 207 | #78 | #104 |
| Alaska | 8 | #87 | — |
| California | 297 | #97 | #68 |
| Illinois | 88 | #99 | #174 |
| Indiana | 61 | #106 | #324 |
| New Jersey | 70 | #107 | #142 |
| Connecticut | 27 | #110 | #209 |
| Oregon | 30 | #114 | #237 |
| Washington | 56 | #115 | #240 |
| Massachusetts | 44 | #123 | #321 |
| Minnesota | 44 | #125 | #205 |
| Wisconsin | 42 | #125 | #367 |
| New York | 125 | #125 | #149 |
| Maryland | 36 | #129 | #223 |
| Texas | 236 | #131 | #114 |
| North Carolina | 75 | #133 | #249 |
| Iowa | 24 | #137 | #688 |
| Pennsylvania | 77 | #138 | #334 |
| Delaware | 7 | #139 | — |
| Montana | 8 | #141 | — |
| Michigan | 59 | #142 | #360 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | #148 | — |
| Arizona | 43 | #150 | #200 |
| Ohio | 71 | #153 | #617 |
| South Carolina | 31 | #155 | #295 |
| Louisiana | 27 | #158 | #366 |
| Kentucky | 28 | #164 | #457 |
| Colorado | 35 | #171 | #359 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #179 | — |
| Utah | 26 | #183 | #394 |
| Georgia | 55 | #193 | #283 |
| Missouri | 31 | #204 | #325 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #205 | #322 |
| Arkansas | 15 | #207 | #444 |
| Kansas | 16 | #211 | #233 |
| Virginia | 38 | #221 | #243 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #229 | — |
| Tennessee | 35 | #233 | #460 |
| Mississippi | 12 | #240 | #654 |
| Idaho | 10 | #241 | #278 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #253 | — |
| Nebraska | 9 | #266 | — |
| New Mexico | 6 | #294 | #211 |
| Alabama | 17 | #296 | #354 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,221 | #127 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,991 | #147 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,955 | #144 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,986 | #148 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,840 | #155 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,882 | #144 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,890 | #151 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,802 | #156 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,824 | #167 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,966 | #160 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,880 | #171 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,886 | #176 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,880 | #169 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,863 | #169 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,957 | #159 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2,065 | #149 | — | — |
| 2009 | 2,321 | #138 | — | — |
| 2008 | 2,505 | #135 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,424 | #144 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,752 | #127 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2,035 | #167 | 6 | #11,392 |
| 2004 | 1,905 | #180 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2003 | 1,914 | #171 | 5 | #12,666 |
| 2002 | 2,107 | #155 | 9 | #7,602 |
| 2001 | 1,982 | #165 | 6 | #10,484 |
| 2000 | 2,017 | #166 | 6 | #10,293 |
| 1999 | 2,038 | #159 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,142 | #148 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,224 | #143 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,082 | #154 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,183 | #149 | 6 | #8,815 |
| 1994 | 2,010 | #159 | — | — |
| 1993 | 2,175 | #144 | 7 | #7,591 |
| 1992 | 2,350 | #136 | — | — |
| 1991 | 2,380 | #135 | 9 | #5,914 |
| 1990 | 2,428 | #129 | 17 | #3,594 |
| 1989 | 2,562 | #117 | 12 | #4,511 |
| 1988 | 2,768 | #103 | 9 | #5,188 |
| 1987 | 2,964 | #93 | 13 | #3,715 |
| 1986 | 3,618 | #76 | 18 | #2,882 |
| 1985 | 3,881 | #71 | 17 | #2,938 |
| 1984 | 3,722 | #76 | 16 | #2,948 |
| 1983 | 3,901 | #74 | 18 | #2,669 |
| 1982 | 3,989 | #75 | 18 | #2,703 |
| 1981 | 3,611 | #89 | 14 | #3,210 |
| 1980 | 3,613 | #85 | 26 | #2,109 |
| 1979 | 3,407 | #89 | 23 | #2,233 |
| 1978 | 3,299 | #92 | 15 | #2,919 |
| 1977 | 3,266 | #86 | 16 | #2,783 |
| 1976 | 3,386 | #83 | 11 | #3,465 |
| 1975 | 3,227 | #92 | 12 | #3,232 |
| 1974 | 3,181 | #93 | 13 | #2,935 |
| 1973 | 3,042 | #96 | 17 | #2,398 |
| 1972 | 3,193 | #100 | 20 | #2,073 |
| 1971 | 3,679 | #102 | 13 | #2,808 |
| 1970 | 4,130 | #97 | 13 | #2,732 |
| 1969 | 4,300 | #85 | 10 | #3,049 |
| 1968 | 4,550 | #77 | 9 | #3,097 |
| 1967 | 4,757 | #73 | 18 | #1,901 |
| 1966 | 4,816 | #74 | 12 | #2,458 |
| 1965 | 5,648 | #67 | 18 | #1,916 |
| 1964 | 6,616 | #66 | 12 | #2,537 |
| 1963 | 6,172 | #69 | 12 | #2,528 |
| 1962 | 6,335 | #67 | 23 | #1,711 |
| 1961 | 6,677 | #67 | 22 | #1,775 |
| 1960 | 6,717 | #65 | 15 | #2,201 |
| 1959 | 7,302 | #60 | 16 | #2,107 |
| 1958 | 6,920 | #64 | 18 | #1,951 |
| 1957 | 6,231 | #76 | 19 | #1,885 |
| 1956 | 5,909 | #80 | 12 | #2,489 |
| 1955 | 5,512 | #80 | 11 | #2,544 |
| 1954 | 4,917 | #87 | 6 | #3,799 |
| 1953 | 4,591 | #88 | 10 | #2,700 |
| 1952 | 4,263 | #87 | 10 | #2,668 |
| 1951 | 3,559 | #100 | 5 | #4,222 |
| 1950 | 3,026 | #116 | 9 | #2,760 |
| 1949 | 3,052 | #108 | 10 | #2,599 |
| 1948 | 2,132 | #135 | 5 | #4,162 |
| 1947 | 1,553 | #184 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,440 | #181 | — | — |
| 1945 | 1,079 | #189 | — | — |
| 1944 | 915 | #216 | 6 | #3,408 |
| 1943 | 955 | #212 | — | — |
| 1942 | 1,017 | #200 | — | — |
| 1941 | 752 | #229 | — | — |
| 1940 | 799 | #214 | 8 | #2,853 |
| 1939 | 622 | #251 | — | — |
| 1938 | 551 | #267 | — | — |
| 1937 | 494 | #279 | — | — |
| 1936 | 453 | #283 | 5 | #4,015 |
| 1935 | 486 | #276 | — | — |
| 1934 | 319 | #354 | — | — |
| 1933 | 293 | #374 | — | — |
| 1932 | 276 | #394 | — | — |
| 1931 | 244 | #413 | — | — |
| 1930 | 222 | #452 | — | — |
| 1929 | 180 | #504 | — | — |
| 1928 | 179 | #518 | — | — |
| 1927 | 195 | #500 | — | — |
| 1926 | 171 | #535 | — | — |
| 1925 | 151 | #588 | — | — |
| 1924 | 172 | #558 | — | — |
| 1923 | 155 | #580 | — | — |
| 1922 | 147 | #594 | — | — |
| 1921 | 190 | #516 | — | — |
| 1920 | 170 | #546 | — | — |
| 1919 | 171 | #521 | — | — |
| 1918 | 202 | #472 | — | — |
| 1917 | 182 | #489 | — | — |
| 1916 | 179 | #476 | — | — |
| 1915 | 171 | #473 | — | — |
| 1914 | 103 | #552 | — | — |
| 1913 | 116 | #467 | — | — |
| 1912 | 87 | #520 | — | — |
| 1911 | 58 | #563 | — | — |
| 1910 | 45 | #637 | — | — |
| 1909 | 47 | #565 | — | — |
| 1908 | 28 | #741 | — | — |
| 1907 | 31 | #690 | — | — |
| 1906 | 25 | #741 | — | — |
| 1905 | 25 | #730 | — | — |
| 1904 | 27 | #680 | — | — |
| 1903 | 17 | #860 | — | — |
| 1902 | 19 | #817 | — | — |
| 1901 | 19 | #767 | — | — |
| 1900 | 21 | #830 | — | — |
| 1899 | 12 | #978 | — | — |
| 1898 | 21 | #748 | — | — |
| 1897 | 16 | #824 | — | — |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1895 | 19 | #743 | — | — |
| 1894 | 17 | #741 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1892 | 11 | #952 | — | — |
| 1891 | 12 | #836 | — | — |
| 1890 | 12 | #822 | — | — |
| 1889 | 12 | #797 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1884 | 8 | #847 | — | — |
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).