Valente
Valente was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,842 among boys’ names; 1,930 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Valente and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 15 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Valente by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Valente?
#3,842 among boys’ names, 2025
Valente rose from #3,872 in 2015 to #3,842 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 17.0 per million.
58 babies in 2007, the peak
Valente peaked in 2007, when 58 boys were given it, #2,279 among boys’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,842 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,974 | 16.3 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,794 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,762 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,573 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,007 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,618 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,695 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,877 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,518 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,872 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,607 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,605 | 11.1 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,122 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,424 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,010 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,698 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,625 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 58 | #2,279 | 27.9 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,280 | 27.2 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,082 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,876 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,037 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,746 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,856 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,519 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,854 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,545 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,338 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,176 | 20.6 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,548 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,386 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 43 | #1,926 | 21.9 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,458 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,459 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,039 | 18.0 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,196 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #2,590 | 12.0 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,263 | 13.9 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,431 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,501 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,816 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,404 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,701 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,400 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,821 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,044 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,274 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,900 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,815 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,890 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,545 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,709 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,981 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,805 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,503 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,095 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,948 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,523 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,072 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,838 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #4,024 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,617 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,886 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,063 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,916 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,426 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,747 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,330 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,521 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,148 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,839 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 8 | #3,006 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,279 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,995 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,660 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,151 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,734 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,406 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,553 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,535 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,115 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,906 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,852 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,895 | 7.5 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,024 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,165 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,612 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,241 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,458 | 10.6 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,596 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,531 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,336 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,183 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,682 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,131 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,462 | 11.5 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,761 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,287 | 5.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,763 | 4.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,483 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Valente a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Valente has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Valente: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Valente, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 1,930 Americans ever recorded as Valente. The median Valente alive today is 26 years old; half are between 15 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 2,788 people named Valente (31 women and girls, 2,757 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,543 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 92 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 187 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 394 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 602 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 363 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Valente born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #1,817 | 2.4× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,897 | 2.7× |
Where Valente is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Valente is most over-represented in Texas: since 1916 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Valente with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Valente
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Valente and names like it
- Compare Valente and GavinoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Valente since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Valente.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Valente alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.