Valjean — unisex name

What the Data Says About Valjean

The Social Security Administration has registered 425 babies named Valjean between 1917 and 1964, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Valjean currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1964. The name reached its historical peak in 1953, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Valjean is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 39 additional births since 1921.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Valjean performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 114 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Valjean shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Valjean in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Valjean 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 425 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.