Valor
#1,254 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Valor has been given to 1,680 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,254 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 159 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.
Babies named Valor, 2025
1 in 20,900
Valor 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Valor over time
In 2025, Valor went to 12% girls and 88% 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 Valor?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 20,900
- 159 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 10,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,254
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 14,453 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Valor 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 14,453 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Valors were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Valor was born before 2020 — so the typical Valor is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 50.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,492
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 50.1% of all recorded uses (748).
Is Valor 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
- +216
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +88
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +636
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.04×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (159)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.3% average annual change
Spellings of Valor
Valor is not the most common spelling — Taylor is, with 60.8% against Valor's 0.80%.
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 Valor is used
Across 2016–2025, Valor was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 19,333 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Tennessee1 in 7,143
- 2Indiana1 in 11,111
- 3Colorado1 in 12,500
- 4Kansas1 in 12,500
- 5Texas1 in 14,286
- 6Florida1 in 16,667
- 7North Carolina1 in 16,667
- 8California1 in 20,000
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.
Valor around the world
Where Valor 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.
- Canada2022–2024#2,328in 2024
- South Australia1953–1953#334in 1953
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Valor by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Valor
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Valor
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.