Girls' name · since 1920
Valine
Valine has 105 recorded births since 1920 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1985 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #26,633 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 105
- born since 1920
- 1980s
- peak decade
Valine is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 105 have been recorded since 1920.
Valine has 105 recorded births among girls since 1920, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1920 to 1991.
- #26,633 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 105 born since 1920
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Valine ranks #26,633 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 105 born since 1920, peaking in the 1980s.
- #26,633 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 105
- born since 1920
- 1980s
- peak decade
Valine's 105 recorded births place it above 63.16% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Valine's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Valine's SSA record in two at 1983 and the more recent half accounts for 62% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 38%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 1920, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1985 peak of 17, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Valine popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1920–1991
- Peak year (1985)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 72 years of records
Valine by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (74 births, 70% of the file).
1980s was Valine's strongest decade.
74 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 70% of all-time use.
Valine births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s 11
1920s
11 births
- 1940s 5
1940s
5 births
- 1950s 10
1950s
10 births
- 1980s
1980s
74 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 74 births (70% of all-time use).
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- Valine's decade-level peak was the 1980s (74 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Valine: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1985)
Similar record span (~71 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1920–1991 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Valine draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.