Valentine — #2437 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Valentine

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,622 babies named Valentine between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Valentine currently holds the #2437 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 142 babies received it in a single year. Valentine is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,168 additional births since 1885.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Valentine performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,143 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Valentine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 682 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Valentine in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Valentine 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 6,622 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.