Meaning not yet researched.
Valley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 207 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,128 in 1888.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,128 in 1888; #1,131 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Valley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,131 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1888, at #1,128.
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Valley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 207 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,128 in 1888 · most girls in one year: 207 (2025).
In 2025, 207 US girls were named Valley, making it the 1,131st most common girls’ name of the year, up 377 places from #1,508 in 2024. That is 63 more than the 144 girls named Valley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,128, reached in 1888. The most girls given the name in a single year was 207, in 2025. For comparison, it was #14,392 in 2015 and #5,266 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valley in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 7 babies. In all, 935 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 6.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 541 babies named Valley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 589 US girls were named Valley; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 207. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,765 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Valley ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #436 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Vallie (3,605 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 Valley 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 7 | #436 | — |
| Tennessee | 16 | #495 | — |
| Utah | 8 | #536 | — |
| Indiana | 12 | #573 | — |
| Missouri | 9 | #635 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #708 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #743 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #770 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #783 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #825 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #899 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #909 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #909 | — |
| North Carolina | 10 | #966 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,124 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,200 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,320 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,610 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 207 | #1,131 | 6 | #11,896 |
| 2024 | 144 | #1,508 | 7 | #10,845 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,647 | — | — |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,488 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,067 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #7,000 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,576 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,424 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,959 | — | — |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,392 | — | — |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,902 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,900 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,714 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,747 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,394 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,656 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,671 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,267 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,559 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,801 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,533 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,813 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,979 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,045 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,713 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,266 | — | — |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,969 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,192 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,898 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,139 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,812 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,922 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,686 | 9 | #3,065 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,756 | 6 | #4,186 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,320 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,673 | — | — |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,763 | 5 | #4,917 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,925 | — | — |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,881 | 5 | #4,941 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,772 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,369 | — | — |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,896 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,404 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,128 | — | — |
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).