Valera

#13,087 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Valera has been given to 1,063 babies in the U.S. since 1896. In 2025 it ranked #13,087 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1919, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Valera, 2025

1 in 474,000

Valera over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valera: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Valera means

Valera is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Valera is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,063 girls were recorded with the name Valera between 1896 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,166 in 1910.

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.

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How common is Valera?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 230,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #13,087; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Valera 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valeras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valera was born before 1927 — so the typical Valera is around 98 today.

Median birth year: 1927; About 98 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 1.1%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 183; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (264).

Is Valera 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: +4,426; Places climbed
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: 18.4%; Peak was 1919 (38)
Years since peak: 106; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,166; 1910

Spellings of Valera

Valera is not the most common spelling — Valerie is, with 35.7% against Valera's 0.14%.

Valerie35.7%273,229
Vera19.6%149,456
Alexa17.2%131,551
Valeria10.5%80,052
Alena2.1%16,014
Tamera1.9%14,282
Alora1.6%11,893
Valery1.2%8,825

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 Valera is used

Across 1910–2025, Valera was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 412,891 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Iowa1 in —
2Ohio1 in —
3Texas1 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. Valera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Valera by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #13,087
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #1,166; 1910
Peak year: 1919; 38 that year
First recorded: 1896
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,063
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Valera

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

Valley Valena Valeri Valora Valeska Valli Vallery Valory Vallie Valrie Valene Valen Valkyrie Valeta Samera Amera Valyn Valynn Valery Valina Valeda Jamera Sameera Valinda

Sibling names for Valera

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

For a sister

Mozelle Idella Johnie Iola Garnet Alpha Albina Leone

For a brother

Granville Dewitt Barney Lyman Waldo Kermit Regis Delmer

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