Valeriy — boys' name
21 babies named Valeriy in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Valeriy was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Valeriy in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Valeriy
The Social Security Administration has registered 21 babies named Valeriy between 1997 and 2012, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Valeriy currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Valeriy performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Valeriy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Valeriy 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 21 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.
Valeriy at a glance
Last recorded 2012Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Valeriy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–1997
- Peak year (1997)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 16 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2012.
21 total births across 16 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 6 births in a single year.
Valeriy by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 10 births that decade — 48% of Valeriy's all-time total
Valeriy decade highlights
- Peak decade 10 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Valeriy's strongest decade
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.