Valor
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #1,252 for boys in 2025, 159 births
Given to boys 88.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 159 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,492since 1988
Valor 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 | #5,722 | 21 | #1,252 | 159 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | #1,459 | 124 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #1,465 | 123 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #1,737 | 96 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #1,554 | 112 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #1,335 | 134 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #1,624 | 101 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #1,606 | 102 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #1,681 | 94 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #1,706 | 91 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #2,402 | 53 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,715 | 43 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2011 | — | #4,983 | 18 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,741 | 15 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,436 | 13 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,249 | 17 | |
| 2007 | — | #12,367 | 5 | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,226 | 12 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,715 | 10 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
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| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Valor! It came in at #7,270, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Valor
- 207 spots since 2024 (#1,459 → #1,252)
- 83 spots since 2020 (#1,335 → #1,252)
- 618 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #1,252)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2025 at #1,252 (159 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,743 boys born in 2025 were named Valor (0.01%)
- 50.1% of all boys named Valor (748) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,270 |
| 1990s | 12 | #7,792 (1995) | #8,136 |
| 2000s | 90 | #5,249 (2008) | #7,629 |
| 2010s | 637 | #1,606 (2018) | #2,714 |
| 2020s | 748 | #1,252 (2025) | #1,467 |
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.
Valor in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 89,143 of them was named Valor, which outranked 63.6% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,169Zuleika19
- #6,169Zunaisha19
- #6,169Zyonna19
- #6,409Valor18
- #6,409Adelyna18
- #6,409Aime18
- #6,409Airis18
- #6,680Aadhira17
- #6,680Aaliah17
- #6,680Aamira17
Tied with 270 names at #6,409; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 13,907 of them was named Valor, which outranked 89.7% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,458Kyair124
- #1,458Taj124
- #1,458Taylen124
- #1,465Valor123
- #1,465Alder123
- #1,465Anton123
- #1,465German123
- #1,473Bernard122
- #1,473Deshawn122
- #1,473Khyson122
Tied with 7 names at #1,465; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.