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Valeska

#5,898 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Valeria

Valeska has been given to 790 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #5,898 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Valeska, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valeska: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Valeria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Valeska means

Valeska is a diminutive of Valeria.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Valeska → Valeria. The family’s meaning is “to be healthy, to be strong”, recorded in English with the source elements valere.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Valeria.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 790 girls were recorded with the name Valeska between 1893 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,637 in 1893.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,933 in 2020 to #5,898 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,094 in 2015 to #5,898 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 Valeska?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,898
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valeska 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valeska. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valeskas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valeska was born before 2003 — so the typical Valeska is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
673
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Choose a decade

2000s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (170).

Is Valeska 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
−123
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,035
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,196
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.91×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.5%
Peak was 2010 (24)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,637
1893

Spellings of Valeska

Valeska is not the most common spelling — Vanessa is, with 69.8% against Valeska's 0.21%.

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 Valeska is used

Across 1910–2025, Valeska was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 510,350 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Valeska has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Valeska around the world

Where Valeska 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.

  • France
    1982–2013
    #5,234
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1995–1997
    #2,443
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1944–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Valeska by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,898
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,035
Best rank ever
#1,637
1893
Peak year
2010
24 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
790
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Valeska

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

ValleryValleyValenaValeraValkyrieValoraMariskaValettaValliValoryWaleskaValeriValindaValeciaValjeanValenValeneValrieValetaVallieValborgValorieValloryValaria

Sibling names for Valeska

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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