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Valjean

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Literal meaning not recorded

Valjean has been given to 464 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1953, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Valjean, 1964

1 in 555,000

Valjean over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Valjean over time

In 1964, Valjean went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19171964

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Valjean: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Valjean means

Valjean is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Valjean is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 425 girls were recorded with the name Valjean between 1917 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1953; its best national rank was #2,412 in 1930.

In the United States, 39 boys were recorded with the name Valjean between 1921 and 1931. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1929; its best national rank was #2,579 in 1929.

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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 Valjean?

Valjean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1964
1 in 555,000
7 of 3,887,460 births
Among girls only
1 in 271,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1964
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
384,941 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valjean 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 1964 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 384,941 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valjean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valjeans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valjean was born before 1945 — so the typical Valjean is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
160
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1950s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (114).

Is Valjean 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
0%
Peak was 1953 (18)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,412
1930

Spellings of Valjean

Valjean is not the most common spelling — Marjean is, with 30.7% against Valjean's 8.4%.

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 Valjean is used

Across 1910–2025, Valjean was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 257,663 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 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. Valjean has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Valjean by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,412
1930
Peak year
1953
18 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
425
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,579
1929
Peak year
1929
11 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1931
All-time count
39
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Valjean

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

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Sibling names for Valjean

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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