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Valkyrie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 101 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,455 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,455 in 2022; #1,925 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Valkyrie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,925 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,455.
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Valkyrie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 101 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,455 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 153 (2022).
In 2025, 101 US girls were named Valkyrie, making it the 1,925th most common girls’ name of the year, down 104 places from #1,821 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 111 girls named Valkyrie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,455, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 153. For comparison, it was #3,758 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valkyrie in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 9 babies. In all, 1,313 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 747 babies named Valkyrie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,042 US girls were named Valkyrie; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 153. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,914 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Valkyrie ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #992 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #992 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,195 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,432 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,614 | — |
| California | 10 | #2,077 | #3,370 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,612 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 2022 | 153 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 2021 | 111 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 2020 | 128 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 2018 | 75 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,758 | — | — |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,260 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,712 | — | — |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,391 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,755 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,616 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,321 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,767 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,380 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,062 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,787 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,679 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,963 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,073 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,746 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,795 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,678 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,460 | — | — |
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).