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Valery

#744 in 2025Girls' name

To be healthy, strong, through Valeria

Valery has been given to 8,932 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #744 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 395 recorded.

Babies named Valery, 2025

1 in 9,060

Valery over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valery: meaning, origin, and history

To be healthy, strong, through Valeria

French and Latin

What Valery means

Valery belongs to the name family reached through Valery → Valeria. Its meaning is “to be healthy, strong”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From French Valéry, from Latin Valerius. Doublet of Valerius.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Valery (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Valery is used in English. Its origins include French and Latin.

Valery comes through French Valéry and Latin Valerius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Valerie, Valerius and Valeria.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,825 girls were recorded with the name Valery between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 395 in 2006; its best national rank was #716 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #905 in 2020 to #744 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,212 in 2015 to #744 in 2025.

In the United States, 107 boys were recorded with the name Valery between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1977; its best national rank was #3,242 in 1914.

How common is Valery?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,060
366 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,390
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#744
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,280 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valery 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,280 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valery. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valerys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valery was born before 2009 — so the typical Valery is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,617
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (2,349).

Is Valery 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
+42
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+161
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+468
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.78×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.7%
Peak was 2006 (395)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#716
2006

Spellings of Valery

Valery is not the most common spelling — Valerie is, with 37.7% against Valery's 1.2%.

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 Valery is used

Across 2016–2025, Valery was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 1,786 girls, against 1 in 4,421 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 50,000).

256 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 1,786
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 2,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 2,500
  4. 4Virginia1 in 2,632
  5. 5New York1 in 3,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 3,333
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 3,846
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 4,000

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.

Geographically, Valery is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 75% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Valery around the world

Where Valery 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
    2011–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2016
    #6,364
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–1969
    #731
    in 1969

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.

Notable people named Valery

People whose public names include Valery, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Valery in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Valery. Linked forms have their own page here.

ValeriValerioValeriyValerianValèreWaleriWaleryValeriuValeriusWalerianWaleriusz

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Valery by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#744
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 161
Best rank ever
#716
2006
Peak year
2006
395 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,825
Count in 2025
366

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,748
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,242
1914
Peak year
1977
8 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
107
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Valery

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

ValleryValorieVallieValarieValeriValenciaElleryValeraValleyValenaMargeryValeriaValoraValeskaValliValoryEmmeryValkyrieValrieValeneValdaEmeryValenValentine

Names with a curve like Valery

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Valery, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SorayaRayneTreasureAzariaLeylaSamiraAlizaMelaniKaiMariellaLiviaNoor

Sibling names for Valery

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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