Meaning not yet researched.
Valery: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 366 in 2025. Its best rank was #716 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #716 in 2006; #744 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Valery in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#744 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #716.
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Valery: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 366 girls in 2025. Peak: #716 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 395 (2006).
In 2025, 366 US girls were named Valery, making it the 744th most common girls’ name of the year, up 42 places from #786 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 359 girls named Valery in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #716, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 395. For comparison, it was #1,212 in 2015 and #2,050 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valery in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 8,932 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,354 babies named Valery.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,051 US girls were named Valery; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 366. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,391 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Valery ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #389 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Valerie (273,922 babies since 1880) and Valeria (80,157 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Vallery, Valory and Vallory are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Vallery (732), Valory (339), Vallory (80).
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 Valery in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 8 | #389 | #443 |
| New Jersey | 17 | #469 | #454 |
| Florida | 39 | #480 | #765 |
| Maryland | 11 | #506 | #884 |
| Arizona | 12 | #576 | — |
| North Carolina | 19 | #579 | — |
| Texas | 54 | #596 | #895 |
| New York | 27 | #627 | #783 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #648 | — |
| California | 48 | #661 | #901 |
| Colorado | 8 | #699 | — |
| Virginia | 11 | #701 | #845 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #765 | — |
| Tennessee | 9 | #809 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #867 | #960 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #921 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #957 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,024 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,202 | #1,757 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,383 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 366 | #744 | 5 | #13,752 |
| 2024 | 359 | #786 | 5 | #14,111 |
| 2023 | 335 | #824 | — | — |
| 2022 | 352 | #803 | — | — |
| 2021 | 303 | #895 | — | — |
| 2020 | 291 | #905 | — | — |
| 2019 | 306 | #882 | — | — |
| 2018 | 264 | #993 | — | — |
| 2017 | 234 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 2016 | 241 | #1,081 | 5 | #14,058 |
| 2015 | 206 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 2014 | 191 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 2013 | 232 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 2012 | 207 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 2011 | 224 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 2010 | 244 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 2009 | 266 | #997 | — | — |
| 2008 | 312 | #892 | — | — |
| 2007 | 343 | #837 | — | — |
| 2006 | 395 | #716 | — | — |
| 2005 | 251 | #978 | — | — |
| 2004 | 175 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 2003 | 144 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 2002 | 136 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 2001 | 126 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 2000 | 115 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,252 | — | — |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,035 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,222 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,781 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,800 | 5 | #8,440 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,329 | — | — |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,456 | — | — |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,616 | — | — |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,728 | 5 | #7,294 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,593 | 5 | #7,291 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,956 | 7 | #5,597 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,510 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,539 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,916 | — | — |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,170 | 8 | #4,567 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,660 | — | — |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,886 | 5 | #4,602 |
| 1961 | 50 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1960 | 49 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1959 | 52 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,702 | 7 | #3,538 |
| 1956 | 50 | #1,519 | 6 | #3,912 |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,596 | 6 | #3,862 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,830 | 5 | #4,304 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,050 | 5 | #4,163 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,411 | 5 | #4,163 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,222 | — | — |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,116 | — | — |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,656 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,236 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,980 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,757 | 6 | #3,466 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,922 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,870 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,841 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,184 | 6 | #3,615 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,877 | 5 | #4,246 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,920 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,515 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,230 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,842 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,711 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,671 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,964 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,928 | — | — |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,243 |
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).