Valdez
Last seen for boys in 2013 at #12,136
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 21 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 258since 1957
Valdez over time
Rank among boys' names. Valdez has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
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| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
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| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #8,803 | 8 |
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| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #11,472 | 5 |
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| 2001 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
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| 1997 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
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| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
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| 1983 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #2,177 | 21 |
| 1975 | #3,659 | 9 |
| 1974 | #2,050 | 21 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #2,279 | 17 |
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| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #3,665 | 6 |
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| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Valdez! It came in at #3,993, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Valdez
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2013
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1974 at #2,050 (21 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 74,715 boys born in 1976 were named Valdez (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 378,316 boys born in 2013 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,050 in 1974, was only 1 in 74,873 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.5% of all boys named Valdez (107) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 10 | #3,944 (1958) | #3,969 |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,665 (1960) | #3,852 |
| 1970s | 107 | #2,050 (1974) | #3,524 |
| 1980s | 41 | #4,141 (1983) | #5,505 |
| 1990s | 52 | #5,382 (1990) | #7,442 |
| 2000s | 24 | #7,536 (2001) | #10,044 |
| 2010s | 13 | #8,803 (2010) | #10,470 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Valdez in 1957
Top boys' names in 1957
More about 1957
boys
2,157,236 boys got a published name in 1957; 1 in 431,447 of them was named Valdez, which outranked 12.3% of the 4,552 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 559 names at #3,993; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.