Waleska is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Valerie, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Waleska: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,540 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,540 in 1972; #11,861 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Waleska in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,861 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #3,540.
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Waleska: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,540 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 21 (1981).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Waleska, making it the 11,861st most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,943 places from #8,918 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 12 girls named Waleska in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,540, reached in 1972. The most girls given the name in a single year was 21, in 1981. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waleska in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 8 babies. In all, 542 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 140 babies named Waleska.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 72 US girls were named Waleska; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Valerie (273,922 babies since 1880) and Valeria (80,157 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).
No nicknames listed for Waleska 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 | 8 | #11,861 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,918 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,464 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,491 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,098 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,978 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,082 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,985 | — | — |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,420 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,685 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,637 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,330 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,423 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,551 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,072 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,724 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,541 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,282 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,541 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,454 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,389 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,036 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,801 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,527 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,781 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,524 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,703 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,481 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,224 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,282 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,104 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,337 | — | — |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,749 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,671 | — | — |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,476 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,449 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,528 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,855 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,903 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,089 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,936 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,206 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,901 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,363 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,355 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,581 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,540 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,534 | — | — |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,489 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,682 | — | — |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,521 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,889 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,286 | — | — |
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).