Vale — #6652 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Vale

The Social Security Administration has registered 327 babies named Vale between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vale currently holds the #6652 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 49 babies received it in a single year. Vale is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 183 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vale performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 203 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Vale shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Vale in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vale 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 327 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.