Valley
#1,131 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Valley has been given to 935 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #1,131 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 207 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.
Babies named Valley, 2025
1 in 16,000
Valley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Valley over time
In 2025, Valley went to 97% girls and 3% boys.
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.
How common is Valley?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 16,000
- 207 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 7,760
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,131
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 11,102 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Valley 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 11,102 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Valleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Valley was born before 2022 — so the typical Valley is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 60.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 700
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 60.1% of all recorded uses (528).
Is Valley 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
- +377
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,932
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +13,256
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 29.57×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (207)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.8% average annual change
Spellings of Valley
Valley is not the most common spelling — Sally is, with 19.6% against Valley's 0.08%.
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 Valley is used — girls
Across 2016–2025, Valley was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 32,159 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 10,000
- 2Alabama1 in 14,286
- 3Mississippi1 in 14,286
- 4Tennessee1 in 14,286
- 5Indiana1 in 16,667
- 6Kentucky1 in 16,667
- 7Louisiana1 in 16,667
- 8North Carolina1 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.
Where Valley is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Valley was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 311,772 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Valley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Valley around the world
Where Valley 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 & Wales2021–2025#3,035in 2025
- Canada2022–2024#1,191in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Valley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Valley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Valley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.