Valeriana

Girls' name

From Spanish Valeriana; literal meaning unconfirmed

Valeriana has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2016, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Valeriana, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valeriana: meaning, origin, and history

From Spanish Valeriana; literal meaning unconfirmed

Spanish

What Valeriana means

Valeriana is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Spanish Valeriana. By surface analysis, Valerian + -a. The archaeological site was named after Laguna la Valeriana, a neighbouring lake.

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Origin, language, and formation

Valeriana is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include Spanish.

Valeriana comes through Spanish Valeriana.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Valeriana between 1999 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2016; its best national rank was #16,101 in 2016.

How common is Valeriana?

Valeriana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Valeriana 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valeriana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valerianas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valeriana was born before 2016 — so the typical Valeriana is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 16; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Valeriana 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 2016 (6)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #16,101; 2016

Spellings of Valeriana

Valeriana is not the most common spelling — Valeria is, with 99.4% against Valeriana's 0.02%.

Valeria99.4%80,052
Alexiana0.62%503
Valeriana0.02%16

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.

Valeriana 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: #16,101; 2016
Peak year: 2016; 6 that year
First recorded: 1999
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 16
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Valeriana

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

Valloleth Valleigh Valentyna Valeryn Valeriya Valerin Valletta Valyrie Valicity Valentia Saeliana Makriyana Vallolet Emilliana Valleria Valenica Valerieann Valentinna Valaysia Valetina Khaliana Valinor Shantiana Aubrieana

Sibling names for Valeriana

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

Karleigh Hadlee Heavenly Scarlette Ayesha Henley Annalee Raylee

For a brother

Smith Damari Kye Canaan Cayson Hamilton Kingsley Langston

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