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Valkyrie

#1,925 in 2025Girls' name

Chooser of the slain

Valkyrie has been given to 1,313 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #1,925 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 153 recorded.

Babies named Valkyrie, 2025

1 in 32,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Valkyrie: meaning, origin, and history

Chooser of the slain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Valkyrie means

Valkyrie means “chooser of the slain”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,313 girls were recorded with the name Valkyrie between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 153 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,455 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,630 in 2020 to #1,925 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,757 in 2015 to #1,925 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.

How common is Valkyrie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,800
101 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,925
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,753 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Valkyrie 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,753 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valkyrie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Valkyries were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Valkyrie was born before 2020 — so the typical Valkyrie is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
56.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,313
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 56.9% of all recorded uses (747).

Is Valkyrie 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
−104
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−295
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,832
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.46×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.0%
Peak was 2022 (153)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,455
2022

Spellings of Valkyrie

Valkyrie is not the most common spelling — Valerie is, with 90.2% against Valkyrie's 0.43%.

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 Valkyrie is used

Across 2016–2025, Valkyrie was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 21,885 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 10,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 14,286
  4. 4Colorado1 in 16,667
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 16,667
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 20,000

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.

Valkyrie around the world

Where Valkyrie 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
    2023–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Valkyrie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,925
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 295
Best rank ever
#1,455
2022
Peak year
2022
153 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,313
Count in 2025
101

Names similar to Valkyrie

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

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Sibling names for Valkyrie

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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