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Valeri

#10,057 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Valerius

Valeri has been given to 1,940 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #10,057 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Valeri, 2025

1 in 332,000

Valeri over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valeri: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Valerius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Valeri means

Valeri is a form of Valerius.

Origin, language, and formation

Valeri is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Valerius and Вале́рий.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,940 girls were recorded with the name Valeri between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,496 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,540 in 2020 to #10,057 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,773 in 2015 to #10,057 in 2025.

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 Valeri?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,057
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valeri 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valeri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valeris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valeri was born before 1976 — so the typical Valeri is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,906
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1960s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (401).

Is Valeri 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
−3,916
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,517
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,716
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.2%
Peak was 1964 (55)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,496
1959

Spellings of Valeri

Valeri is not the most common spelling — Valerie is, with 65.5% against Valeri's 0.46%.

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 Valeri is used

Across 1910–2025, Valeri was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 222,714 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 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. Valeri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Valeri around the world

Where Valeri 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
    1944–1944
    #345
    in 1944

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

Valeri by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,057
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,517
Best rank ever
#1,496
1959
Peak year
1964
55 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,940
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Valeri

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

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Sibling names for Valeri

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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