Valley
#1,129 for girls in 2025, 207 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 94.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1888 · 7 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 879since 1888
Valley over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #1,129 | 207 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,505 | 144 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #2,555 | 69 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,595 | 43 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | — | |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | — | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | — | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | — | |
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | — | |
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
| 2006 | — | — | ||
| 2005 | — | — | ||
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| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | — | ||
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| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
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| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
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| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
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| 1946 | — | — | ||
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| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | #2,963 | 9 | — | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | #2,923 | 9 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #3,137 | 9 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | #2,843 | 9 |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | #3,780 | 6 |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,612 | 13 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #2,762 | 12 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,731 | 12 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #3,005 | 10 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,879 | 10 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 | — | |
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #1,935 | 7 | — | |
| 1909 | #2,208 | 5 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,862 | 6 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,512 | 8 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | #1,364 | 8 | — | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | #1,679 | 5 | — | |
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| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | #1,036 | 7 | — | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Valley! It came in at #1,036, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1903, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Valley
- 376 spots since 2024 (#1,505 → #1,129)
- 4,721 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #1,129)
- 11,877 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #1,129)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1888 at #1,036 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1889, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,765 girls born in 2025 were named Valley (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,036 in 1888, was only 1 in 25,517 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 60.1% of all girls named Valley (528) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1949, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | #1,036 (1888) | #1,036 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 32 | #1,364 (1904) | #1,725 |
| 1910s | 44 | #1,935 (1910) | #3,168 |
| 1920s | 63 | #2,612 (1922) | #3,527 |
| 1930s | 24 | #2,923 (1934) | #3,931 |
| 1940s | 9 | #2,963 (1940) | #2,963 |
| 1950s | 23 | #4,738 (1950) | #5,342 |
| 1960s | 18 | #5,309 (1961) | #5,991 |
| 1970s | 10 | #9,067 (1975) | #9,360 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 11 | #12,070 (1997) | #12,750 |
| 2000s | 5 | #17,636 (2007) | #17,636 |
| 2010s | 105 | #6,698 (2019) | #9,763 |
| 2020s | 528 | #1,129 (2025) | #3,012 |
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.
Valley in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 11,251 of them was named Valley, which outranked 91.5% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 246,127 of them was named Valley, which outranked 30.8% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,987Zyn8
- #8,987Zyonn8
- #8,987Zyran8
- #9,894Valley7
- #9,894Aadhi7
- #9,894Aadhyan7
- #9,894Aamari7
- #10,938Aaden6
- #10,938Aadyant6
- #10,938Aahaan6
Tied with 1,043 names at #9,894; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.