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Valary

Girls' name

Variant of Valerie

Valary has been given to 88 babies in the U.S. since 1949. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1964, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Valary, 2010

1 in 616,000

Valary over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valary: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Valerie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Valary means

Valary is a variant of Valerie.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Valary is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈvæl.ə.ɹi/ for Valary.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Valary → Valerie → Valeria. The family’s meaning is “to be healthy, strong”, recorded in Latin with the source elements valeō.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Valerie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 88 girls were recorded with the name Valary between 1949 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1964; its best national rank was #4,622 in 1964.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Valary?

Valary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 296,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,971 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valary sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valarys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valary was born before 1980 — so the typical Valary is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
83
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Valary rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1964 (10)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,622
1964

Spellings of Valary

Valary is not the most common spelling — Hilary is, with 36.4% against Valary's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Valary around the world

Where Valary ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1946–1967
    #650
    in 1967

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Valary by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,622
1964
Peak year
1964
10 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
88
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Valary

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ValleeVallenValinaValynnValiaValloryValaniValariValoryValitaValineValorValoraValoisValreeValadaValeenValloletValynValerinValenaValeriyaValereeValleri

Sibling names for Valary

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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