Valene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Valene has been given to 901 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1983, with 64 recorded.
Babies named Valene, 2015
1 in 740,000
Valene 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Valene?
Valene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 740,000
- 5 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,148 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Valene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Valenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Valene was born before 1980 — so the typical Valene is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 41.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 8.0%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 659
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (369).
Is Valene 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 1983 (64)
- Years since peak
- 42
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.0% average annual change
Spellings of Valene
Valene is not the most common spelling — Valerie is, with 25.7% against Valene's 0.08%.
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.
Where Valene is used
Across 1910–2025, Valene was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 418,336 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Colorado1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Valene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Valene around the world
Where Valene 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.
- Scotland1980–1980#539in 1980
- France1982–2007#3,478in 2007
- Canada1992–1992#1,331in 1992
- South Australia1986–1988#657in 1988
Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Valene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Valene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Valene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.