Valeriya
#17,093 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Valeriya has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #17,093 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Valeriya, 2025
1 in 663,000
Valeriya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Valeriya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #17,093
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Valeriya sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valeriya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Valeriyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Valeriya was born before 2014 — so the typical Valeriya is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 44.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 50
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (22).
Is Valeriya 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
- +248
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 55.6%
- Peak was 2012 (9)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Valeriya
Valeriya is not the most common spelling — Valerie is, with 74.8% against Valeriya's 0.01%.
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.
Valeriya around the world
Where Valeriya 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 & Wales2009–2024#5,892in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Valeriya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Valeriya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Valeriya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.