Valerie
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#127
up +20 places
2025 births
2,221
up +230 births
All-time births
273,229
1% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1959
- 7,302 births
- Best rank
- #60
- in 1959
- First recorded
- 1884
- #847 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1976
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 140 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19597,302#60Peak
- 19586,920#64
- 19606,717#65
- 19616,677#67
- 19646,616#66
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #60 in 1959 · peak births 7,302 in 1959
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
693 boys · 273,229 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 Valerie has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.