Valeri
Valeri was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,057 among girls’ names; 1,940 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Valeri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 30 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Valeri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Valeri?
#10,057 among girls’ names, 2025
Valeri rose from #11,773 in 2015 to #10,057 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 6.2 per million.
55 babies in 1964, the peak
Valeri peaked in 1964, when 55 girls were given it, #1,547 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,057 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,141 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,146 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,628 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,935 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,540 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,687 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,123 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,304 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,386 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,773 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,930 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,070 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,142 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,684 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,250 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,317 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,392 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,794 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,946 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,981 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,223 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,557 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,797 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,053 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #8,007 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,769 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,347 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 28 | #4,000 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,050 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,245 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,698 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,242 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,465 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,317 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,858 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,037 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,794 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,717 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,200 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,652 | 21.5 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,063 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,147 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,522 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,065 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,211 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,327 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,191 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,168 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,658 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,611 | 20.6 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,610 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,452 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,170 | 23.7 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,964 | 26.4 |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,266 | 20.0 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,170 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,832 | 26.2 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,211 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,144 | 18.3 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,062 | 18.7 |
| 1964 | 55 | #1,547 | 29.0 |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,865 | 20.8 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,649 | 24.4 |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,717 | 22.3 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,787 | 20.3 |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,496 | 26.2 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,818 | 18.4 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,900 | 16.6 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,868 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,873 | 16.9 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,764 | 18.0 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,868 | 15.9 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,889 | 15.6 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,242 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,428 | 10.5 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,066 | 13.4 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,330 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Valeri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Valeri has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Valeri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Valeri, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,940 Americans ever recorded as Valeri. The median Valeri alive today is 48 years old; half are between 30 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 2,671 people named Valeri (2,129 women and girls, 542 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,740 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Valeri rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 476 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 471 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 393 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 269 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 166 |
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 Valeri born?
The states with the most babies named Valeri are California, Texas and Ohio, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 189 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 84 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Valeri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Valeri?
Valeri is a less common spelling of Valerie: SSA has recorded 1,940 Valeri and 273,922 Valerie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 393,406 babies since 1880, Valeri is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 4,531 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Valeri
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 Valeri and names like it
- Compare Valeri and ValerieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sValeri peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Valeri since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Valeri.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Valeri alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.