Meaning not yet researched.
Valor: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 159 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,254 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 88% of babies named Valor in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,254 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Valor: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 159 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,254 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 159 (2025).
In 2025, 159 US boys were named Valor, making it the 1,254th most common boys’ name of the year, up 216 places from #1,470 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 124 boys named Valor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,254, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 159. For comparison, it was #1,890 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Valor, making it the 5,900th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,674 places from #7,574 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 15 girls named Valor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,900, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 21. For comparison, it was #16,287 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Valor in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 1,680 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 857 babies named Valor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,136 US boys were named Valor; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 159. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,743 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Valor ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #568 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Valere, Valire and Vaylor are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Valere (33), Valire (26), Vaylor (7), Valyre (5), Valier (5).
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 Valor in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 10 | #568 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #627 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #759 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #842 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #924 | — |
| North Carolina | 9 | #929 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #940 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,080 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,175 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,214 | #1,194 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,457 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,187 | #2,250 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,900 | 159 | #1,254 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,574 | 124 | #1,470 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,660 | 123 | #1,470 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,207 | 96 | #1,748 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,239 | 112 | #1,564 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,304 | 134 | #1,342 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,573 | 101 | #1,633 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,507 | 102 | #1,616 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,309 | 94 | #1,694 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,364 | 91 | #1,723 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,287 | 78 | #1,890 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,487 | 53 | #2,427 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,114 | 43 | #2,760 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,881 | 42 | #2,864 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,183 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #6,016 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,784 |
| 2008 | — | — | 17 | #5,475 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #14,280 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,599 |
| 2005 | — | — | 12 | #6,609 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,874 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,216 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #7,009 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #8,166 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,587 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,816 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,441 |
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).