Valery
#743 for girls in 2025, 366 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 98.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 395 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,825since 1920
Valery over time
Rank among girls' names. Valery has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #743 | 366 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #784 | 359 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #823 | 335 | — | |
| 2022 | #800 | 352 | — | |
| 2021 | #891 | 303 | — | |
| 2020 | #904 | 291 | — | |
| 2019 | #878 | 306 | — | |
| 2018 | #992 | 264 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,082 | 234 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,078 | 241 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,209 | 206 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,261 | 191 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,068 | 232 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,188 | 207 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,096 | 224 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,025 | 244 | — | |
| 2009 | #995 | 266 | — | |
| 2008 | #890 | 312 | — | |
| 2007 | #834 | 343 | — | |
| 2006 | #716 | 395 | — | |
| 2005 | #976 | 251 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,244 | 175 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,386 | 144 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,411 | 136 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,489 | 126 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,551 | 115 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,560 | 108 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,867 | 82 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,102 | 67 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,229 | 60 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,125 | 63 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,255 | 58 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,489 | 50 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,351 | 55 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,156 | 35 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,677 | 34 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #2,552 | 35 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #2,901 | 31 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,083 | 25 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #2,602 | 30 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,629 | 27 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,523 | 28 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,296 | 34 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,203 | 36 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,871 | 44 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,855 | 41 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,682 | 46 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,796 | 40 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,715 | 43 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,610 | 50 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,015 | 34 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,858 | 38 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #1,598 | 50 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,597 | 49 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,499 | 52 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,417 | 56 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,681 | 41 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #1,506 | 50 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #1,579 | 42 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #1,909 | 30 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,783 | 31 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #1,578 | 37 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,805 | 29 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,002 | 23 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #1,845 | 27 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,329 | 18 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #3,061 | 12 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,880 | 12 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | #3,113 | 6 |
| 1938 | #2,730 | 10 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 | — | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | — | |
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Valery! It came in at #4,398, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1921, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Valery
- 41 spots since 2024 (#784 → #743)
- 161 spots since 2020 (#904 → #743)
- 466 spots since 2015 (#1,209 → #743)
- Biggest jump: 268 spots in 2005 (#1,244 → #976)
- Biggest drop: 118 spots in 2007 (#716 → #834)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2006 at #716 (395 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,391 girls born in 2025 were named Valery (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #716 in 2006, was only 1 in 4,813 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.6% of all girls named Valery (2,349) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 35 | #3,561 (1927) | #4,486 |
| 1930s | 51 | #2,730 (1938) | #3,790 |
| 1940s | 122 | #1,845 (1949) | #3,020 |
| 1950s | 391 | #1,417 (1958) | #1,676 |
| 1960s | 435 | #1,597 (1960) | #1,760 |
| 1970s | 278 | #2,203 (1970) | #2,802 |
| 1980s | 279 | #2,552 (1983) | #3,273 |
| 1990s | 616 | #1,560 (1999) | #2,312 |
| 2000s | 2,263 | #716 (2006) | #1,149 |
| 2010s | 2,349 | #878 (2019) | #1,088 |
| 2020s | 2,006 | #743 (2025) | #824 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Valery in 1955
Top girls' names in 1955
Top boys' names in 1955
More about 1955
girls
1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 46,554 of them was named Valery, which outranked 76.5% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,556Wanita43
- #1,556Wende43
- #1,556Zona43
- #1,579Valery42
- #1,579Bobette42
- #1,579Carlyn42
- #1,579Celina42
- #1,597Alexa41
- #1,597Augustine41
- #1,597Bella41
Tied with 17 names at #1,579; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,059,889 boys got a published name in 1955; 1 in 343,315 of them was named Valery, which outranked 20.3% of the 4,400 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).