Valia
#13,088 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Valia has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #13,088 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Valia, 2025
1 in 474,000
Valia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Valia?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,088
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Valia 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Valias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Valia was born before 1953 — so the typical Valia is around 72 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 34.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 43
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (29).
Is Valia 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 63.6%
- Peak was 1920 (11)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.3% average annual change
Spellings of Valia
Valia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 21.4% against Valia'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.
Where Valia is used
Across 1910–2025, Valia was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,752,106 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 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. Valia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Valia around the world
Where Valia 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 & Wales2022–2022#5,670in 2022
- France1964–2023#7,582in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Valia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Valia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Valia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.