Valen — #1701 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Valen

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,265 babies named Valen between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Valen currently holds the #1701 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 102 babies received it in a single year. Valen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 482 additional births since 1951.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Valen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 530 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Valen shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 149 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Valen in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Valen 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 1,265 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.