Valeria
Valeria was given to 1,835 girls in 2025, #162 among girls’ names; 80,157 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 73,200 Americans named Valeria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Valeria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Valeria mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Valeria is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “to be healthy, to be strong” (valere).
Feminine form of Roman family name Valerius, from Latin valere (“to be healthy, to be strong”). Doublet of Valerie.
/vəˈlɪəɹi.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Valeria?
#162 among girls’ names, 2025
Valeria held from #162 in 2015 to #162 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 1.1 per 1,000.
4,212 babies in 2008, the peak
Valeria peaked in 2008, when 4,212 babies were given it (4,206 girls, #73 among girls’ names). The 1,835 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,835 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 1,866 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 1,866 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 1,997 | #146 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 1,814 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 1,816 | #150 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 1,989 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 1,990 | #141 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 1,890 | #157 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 2,038 | #153 | 1.2 |
Every recorded year (145)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,977 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 1,892 | #175 | 1.1 |
| 2013 | 1,816 | #176 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 2,144 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 2,540 | #125 | 1.4 |
| 2010 | 3,116 | #96 | 1.8 |
| 2009 | 4,091 | #72 | 2.2 |
| 2008 | 4,206 | #73 | 2.2 |
| 2007 | 3,413 | #98 | 1.8 |
| 2006 | 3,731 | #91 | 2.0 |
| 2005 | 2,430 | #137 | 1.3 |
| 2004 | 1,959 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 1,736 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 1,638 | #197 | 0.91 |
| 2001 | 1,589 | #203 | 0.88 |
| 2000 | 1,423 | #222 | 0.78 |
| 1999 | 1,059 | #292 | 0.60 |
| 1998 | 1,032 | #290 | 0.58 |
| 1997 | 967 | #298 | 0.56 |
| 1996 | 855 | #329 | 0.49 |
| 1995 | 865 | #318 | 0.49 |
| 1994 | 789 | #340 | 0.44 |
| 1993 | 885 | #302 | 0.49 |
| 1992 | 665 | #389 | 0.36 |
| 1991 | 366 | #617 | 0.20 |
| 1990 | 312 | #684 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 232 | #819 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 224 | #815 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 208 | #841 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 206 | #819 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 224 | #764 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 141 | #1,017 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 154 | #956 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 146 | #1,015 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 114 | #1,171 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 100 | #1,285 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 101 | #1,269 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 115 | #1,133 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 97 | #1,246 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 131 | #979 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 157 | #858 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 139 | #911 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 163 | #806 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 122 | #987 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 143 | #915 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 176 | #798 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 190 | #736 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 208 | #673 | 0.13 |
| 1967 | 206 | #670 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 192 | #709 | 0.11 |
| 1965 | 212 | #676 | 0.12 |
| 1964 | 268 | #611 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 183 | #761 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 209 | #715 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 207 | #723 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 177 | #767 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 205 | #701 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 229 | #656 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 186 | #736 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 222 | #639 | 0.11 |
| 1955 | 208 | #644 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 187 | #687 | 0.10 |
| 1953 | 172 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 179 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1951 | 160 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 174 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1949 | 163 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 127 | #759 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 97 | #904 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 93 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 57 | #1,030 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 82 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 111 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 94 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 93 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 95 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 98 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 110 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 115 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 97 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1935 | 123 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 113 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 122 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 131 | #575 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 136 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 137 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 135 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1928 | 153 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1927 | 202 | #492 | 0.17 |
| 1926 | 193 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1925 | 167 | #558 | 0.14 |
| 1924 | 212 | #481 | 0.17 |
| 1923 | 205 | #482 | 0.17 |
| 1922 | 198 | #494 | 0.16 |
| 1921 | 202 | #487 | 0.16 |
| 1920 | 234 | #441 | 0.20 |
| 1919 | 221 | #444 | 0.20 |
| 1918 | 243 | #425 | 0.21 |
| 1917 | 228 | #423 | 0.21 |
| 1916 | 226 | #415 | 0.22 |
| 1915 | 173 | #468 | 0.18 |
| 1914 | 152 | #445 | 0.20 |
| 1913 | 123 | #448 | 0.20 |
| 1912 | 91 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1911 | 75 | #481 | 0.18 |
| 1910 | 60 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1909 | 45 | #579 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 41 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1907 | 35 | #635 | 0.11 |
| 1906 | 43 | #540 | 0.15 |
| 1905 | 44 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1904 | 41 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1903 | 24 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 28 | #640 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 26 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 33 | #623 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 24 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 42 | #479 | 0.16 |
| 1897 | 25 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 22 | #686 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 29 | #563 | 0.12 |
| 1894 | 32 | #515 | 0.14 |
| 1893 | 17 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 21 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 15 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 16 | #690 | 0.08 |
| 1889 | 15 | #685 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 15 | #687 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 15 | #606 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 11 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 13 | #627 | 0.10 |
| 1884 | 9 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 6 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 6 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 8 | #673 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Valeria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Valeria has been given almost only to girls: 105 boys in 145 years of records.
Girls and boys named Valeria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Valeria, and how old are they?
73,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 80,157 Americans ever recorded as Valeria. The median Valeria alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 63,605 people named Valeria (63,469 women and girls, 136 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 63,406 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 529 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,720 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,270 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 24,600 |
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 Valeria born?
The states with the most babies named Valeria are California, Texas and Florida, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 392 | #68 | 2.1× |
| Texas | 306 | #88 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 193 | #81 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 85 | #106 | 1.1× |
| New York | 69 | #247 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 68 | #151 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 54 | #116 | 1.7× |
| Washington | 52 | #129 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 50 | #214 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 44 | #191 | 0.6× |
Where Valeria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Valeria is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 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 Valeria with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 393,406 babies since 1880, Valeria is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,835 of their 4,531 babies (40%), again the second 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 Valeria
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 Valeria and names like it
- Compare Valeria and ValerieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sValeria peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Valeria since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Valeria: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Valeria.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Valeria alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.