Valerio is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Valerie, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Valerio: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,749 in 1955.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,749 in 1955; #5,375 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Valerio in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,375 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1955, at #2,749.
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Valerio: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,749 in 1955 · most boys in one year: 28 (2024).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Valerio, making it the 5,375th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,398 places from #3,977 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 28 boys named Valerio in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,749, reached in 1955. The most boys given the name in a single year was 28, in 2024. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #4,162 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valerio in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 502 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 117 babies named Valerio.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 146 US boys were named Valerio; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Valerie (273,922 babies since 1880), Valeria (80,157 babies since 1880), Valarie (18,714 babies since 1880) and Valery (8,932 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Valerio in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 18 | #5,375 |
| 2024 | — | — | 28 | #3,977 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,648 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #7,228 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,228 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,438 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,676 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,609 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,629 |
| 2016 | — | — | 5 | #14,057 |
| 2014 | — | — | 7 | #10,639 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,728 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,821 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #8,032 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #12,120 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,808 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,975 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,674 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #11,393 |
| 2004 | — | — | 14 | #5,787 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,819 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #12,393 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,485 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #8,165 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,586 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #9,204 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,471 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,105 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,083 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,592 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,897 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,226 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #6,061 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,492 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,447 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,290 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,596 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,602 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,332 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,717 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,905 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #4,026 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,619 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #4,020 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,964 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,918 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,749 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,159 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,303 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,223 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,162 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #4,002 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,117 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,245 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,685 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,843 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,233 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,940 |
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).