Valery

#743 for girls in 2025, 366 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 98.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
2006 · 395 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
8,825
since 1920

Valery over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Valery has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201970peak #716, 2006girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#743366#12,0085
2024#784359#12,3495
2023#823335—
2022#800352—
2021#891303—
2020#904291—
2019#878306—
2018#992264—
2017#1,082234—
2016#1,078241#12,1855
2015#1,209206—
2014#1,261191—
2013#1,068232—
2012#1,188207—
2011#1,096224—
2010#1,025244—
2009#995266—
2008#890312—
2007#834343—
2006#716395—
2005#976251—
2004#1,244175—
2003#1,386144—
2002#1,411136—
2001#1,489126—
2000#1,551115—
1999#1,560108—
1998#1,86782—
1997#2,10267—
1996#2,22960—
1995#2,12563—
1994#2,25558—
1993#2,48950—
1992#2,35155—
1991#2,98938—
1990#3,15635—
1989#3,67327—
1988#3,69025#7,2705
1987#3,25728—
1986#3,36026—
1985#3,51724—
1984#2,67734#6,3155
1983#2,55235#6,2385
1982#2,90131#5,0037
1981#2,77432—
1980#4,32717—
1979#3,44223—
1978#3,77719—
1977#3,08325#4,1648
1976#2,60230—
1975#2,35734—
1974#3,11022—
1973#2,62927—
1972#2,52328—
1971#2,29634—
1970#2,20336—
1969#1,87144—
1968#1,85541—
1967#1,68246—
1966#1,79640—
1965#1,71543—
1964#1,61050—
1963#2,01534—
1962#1,85838#4,0335
1961#1,59850—
1960#1,59749—
1959#1,49952—
1958#1,41756—
1957#1,68141#3,2577
1956#1,50650#3,5356
1955#1,57942#3,5056
1954#1,90930—
1953#1,78331#3,7985
1952#1,57837—
1951#1,80529—
1950#2,00223#3,6815
1949#1,84527—
1948#2,32918#3,6685
1947#3,06112—
1946#2,88012—
1945#2,91610—
1944#2,40114—
1943#4,1966—
1942#3,1949—
1941#3,0309—
1940#4,3495—
1939#3,4297#3,1136
1938#2,73010—
1937#4,2555—
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1933#3,7536#3,2686
1932#3,5687#3,7765
1931#4,3315—
1930#4,0476—
1929#4,5705—
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1927#3,5618—
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1925#4,9735—
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1923#4,9675—
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First appearance
1920

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.

Where Valery is popular in 1970

No state had 5 or more girls named Valery in 1970, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Valery
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
86 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1920
  • Peaked 2006 at #716 (395 births)
  • Births halved by 2014, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 13 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2018–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,391
  • 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
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 26.6% of all girls named Valery (2,349) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s35#3,561 (1927)#4,486
1930s51#2,730 (1938)#3,790
1940s122#1,845 (1949)#3,020
1950s391#1,417 (1958)#1,676
1960s435#1,597 (1960)#1,760
1970s278#2,203 (1970)#2,802
1980s279#2,552 (1983)#3,273
1990s616#1,560 (1999)#2,312
2000s2,263#716 (2006)#1,149
2010s2,349#878 (2019)#1,088
2020s2,006#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 1970

girls
#2,203
36 births · 1 in 48,560 girls

Top girls' names in 1970

  1. #1Jennifer46,150
  2. #2Lisa38,967
  3. #3Kimberly34,130
  4. #4Michelle34,047
  5. #5Amy25,212
  6. #6Angela24,929
  7. #7Melissa23,735
  8. #8Tammy19,587
  9. #9Mary19,204
  10. #10Tracy18,464
  11. #2,203Valery36
More about 1970

girls

1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 48,560 of them was named Valery, which outranked 76.5% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Valery
  1. #2,160Tandra37
  2. #2,160Torrie37
  3. #2,160Trudie37
  4. #2,203Valery36
  5. #2,203Barrie36
  6. #2,203Bryan36
  7. #2,203Charice36
  8. #2,240Alyse35
  9. #2,240Ashlee35
  10. #2,240Christianne35

Tied with 36 names at #2,203; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1969
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,541Tanisha#2,515 → #974
  2. ↑ 1,194India#1,955 → #761
  3. ↑ 695Shay#1,648 → #953
  4. ↑ 685Terra#1,303 → #618
  5. ↑ 669Dyan#1,648 → #979
Fallers
  1. ↓ 385Cinnamon#698 → #1,083
  2. ↓ 306Kaye#932 → #1,238
  3. ↓ 303Luanne#990 → #1,293
  4. ↓ 273Laureen#845 → #1,118
  5. ↓ 273Lesia#965 → #1,238

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1970 →