Val — #5444 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Val

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,634 babies named Val between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Val currently holds the #5444 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1952, when 178 babies received it in a single year. Val is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,749 additional births since 1908.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Val performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 1,475 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Val shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 731 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Val in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Val in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,634 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.