Valyn
#5,900 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Valyn has been given to 301 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #5,900 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.
Babies named Valyn, 2025
1 in 158,000
Valyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Valyn over time
In 2025, Valyn went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Valyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 76,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,900
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Valyn 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Valyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Valyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Valyn was born before 2015 — so the typical Valyn is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 279
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (117).
Is Valyn 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
- +2,020
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,293
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,195
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.91×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (21)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.9% average annual change
Spellings of Valyn
Valyn is not the most common spelling — Evelyn is, with 58.5% against Valyn's 0.03%.
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.
Valyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Valyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Valyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.