Valkyrie
Valkyrie was given to 101 girls in 2025, #1,925 among girls’ names; 1,313 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Valkyrie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Valkyrie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Valkyrie?
#1,925 among girls’ names, 2025
Valkyrie rose from #3,757 in 2015 to #1,925 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.0 to 62.8 per million.
153 babies in 2022, the peak
Valkyrie peaked in 2022, when 153 girls were given it, #1,455 among girls’ names. The 101 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,925 | 62.8 |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,821 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,511 | 89.1 |
| 2022 | 153 | #1,455 | 93.3 |
| 2021 | 111 | #1,827 | 67.6 |
| 2020 | 128 | #1,630 | 79.2 |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,862 | 64.9 |
| 2018 | 75 | #2,418 | 44.1 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,740 | 36.5 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,375 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,757 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,258 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,708 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,389 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,751 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,613 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,318 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,762 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,376 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,057 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,781 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,672 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,957 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,066 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,738 | 4.4 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,790 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,672 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,453 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Valkyrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Valkyrie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Valkyrie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Valkyrie, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,313 Americans ever recorded as Valkyrie. The median Valkyrie alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 591 people named Valkyrie (580 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 594 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,130 |
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 Valkyrie born?
The states with the most babies named Valkyrie are California, Texas and Ohio, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,077 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,612 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,431 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,195 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,614 | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #992 | 0.2× |
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 Valkyrie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Valkyrie
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 Valkyrie and names like it
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- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Valkyrie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Valkyrie alive today were born 2013-2025.
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