Vallen is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Valen, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Vallen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,874 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,874 in 2024; #5,832 in 2025. About 70% of babies named Vallen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,832 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #4,874.
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Vallen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,874 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 21 (2024).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Vallen, making it the 5,832nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 958 places from #4,874 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 21 boys named Vallen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,874, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 21. For comparison, it was #6,653 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Vallen, making it the 13,094th most common girls’ name of the year, up 280 places from #13,374 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 7 girls named Vallen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,688, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 12, in 2021. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vallen in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 7 babies. In all, 317 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 131 babies named Vallen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 152 US boys were named Vallen; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Valen (1,880 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 Vallen 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 | 7 | #13,094 | 16 | #5,832 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,374 | 21 | #4,874 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,449 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,165 | 11 | #7,726 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,941 | 19 | #5,098 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #7,004 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,387 |
| 2018 | — | — | 14 | #6,317 |
| 2017 | — | — | 12 | #7,069 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #6,037 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,653 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,603 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #10,657 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,713 | 7 | #10,690 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,714 |
| 2010 | — | — | 13 | #6,680 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #14,377 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,972 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #12,266 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,972 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #13,246 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #12,394 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,489 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,735 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,688 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,195 | — | — |
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).