Valetta — girls' name
606 babies named Valetta in U.S. Social Security records since 1893, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Valetta was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Valetta in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Valetta
The Social Security Administration has registered 606 babies named Valetta between 1893 and 1982, spanning 90 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Valetta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1982. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Valetta performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 128 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Valetta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Valetta in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Valetta 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 606 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.
Valetta at a glance
Last recorded 1982Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Valetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1982–1893
- Peak year (1920)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 90 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1982.
606 total births across 90 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 17 births in a single year.
Valetta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 128 births that decade — 21% of Valetta's all-time total
Valetta decade highlights
- Peak decade 128 births
- Runner-up 110 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Valetta's strongest decade
128 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Valetta by state
Where Valetta concentrates geographically — total births since 1893
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 15 | 2.5% |
15 of 606 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 2.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 2.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1893–1982 (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.