In 2025, 21 US girls were named Valeska, making it the 5,899th most common girls’ name of the year, down 121 places from #5,778 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 22 girls named Valeska in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,637, reached in 1893. The most girls given the name in a single year was 24, in 2010. For comparison, it was #10,099 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valeska in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 5 babies. In all, 790 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 170 babies named Valeska.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 176 US girls were named Valeska; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.