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Valerio

#5,373 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Valerius

Valerio has been given to 502 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #5,373 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Valerio, 2025

1 in 184,000

Valerio over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valerio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Valerius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Valerio means

Valerio is a form of Valerius.

Origin, language, and formation

Valerio is used in Italian.

Valerio comes through Latin Valerius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Valerius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Valerio is pronounced /vaˈlɛ.rjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 502 boys were recorded with the name Valerio between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,748 in 1955.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,434 in 2020 to #5,373 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.

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How common is Valerio?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,373
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valerio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valerio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valerios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valerio was born before 2000 — so the typical Valerio is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
459
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2020s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Valerio 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
−1,398
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+61
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
64.3%
Peak was 2024 (28)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,748
1955

Spellings of Valerio

Valerio is not the most common spelling — Saverio is, with 60.9% against Valerio's 16.4%.

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 Valerio is used

Across 1910–2025, Valerio was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,058,488 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Valerio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Valerio around the world

Where Valerio 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1923–2025
    #1,820
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1955–1972
    #479
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Valerio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,373
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 61
Best rank ever
#2,748
1955
Peak year
2024
28 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
502
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Valerio

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

ValerianValiantValenteValdemarVallenValerieNazarioHonorioRomarioValmoreOlegarioDamarioValgeneValeryJamarioNasarioValenValtonLiborioSaverioRogerioValorLamarioValencio

Sibling names for Valerio

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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