Val
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#4,692
up +944 places
2025 births
22
up +5 births
All-time births
5,657
0% of them in 2025
More common than
96%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1952
- 178 births
- Best rank
- #527
- in 1952
- First recorded
- 1882
- #1,087 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1953
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 129 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1952178#527Peak
- 1956168#589
- 1953156#575
- 1955150#606
- 1954148#609
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #527 in 1952 · peak births 178 in 1952
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 76% boys■ 24% girls
5,657 boys · 1,749 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Val has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.