Valdean
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Valdean has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 1933, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% boys, 45% girls all-time.
Babies named Valdean, 1933
1 in 333,000
Valdean over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Valdean over time
In 1941, Valdean went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Valdean?
Valdean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1933, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1933
- 1 in 333,000
- 6 of 1,999,415 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 165,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1933
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 230,983 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Valdean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1933 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 230,983 children born in 1933 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valdean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Valdeans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Valdean was born before 1933 — so the typical Valdean is around 92 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Valdean 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1933 (6)
- Years since peak
- 92
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Valdean
Valdean is not the most common spelling — Alden is, with 80.4% against Valdean's 0.03%.
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.
Valdean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Valdean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Valdean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.