Valla
Valla was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 222 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Valla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Valla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,045, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1918, the peak
Valla peaked in 1918, when 10 girls were given it, #3,224 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #15,045 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,588 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,799 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,529 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,258 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,976 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,672 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,710 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,574 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,461 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 6 | #5,371 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,649 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,213 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,984 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,320 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,186 | 3.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,833 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,407 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,820 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,772 | 6.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,426 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,183 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,876 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,466 | 7.5 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,522 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,559 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,394 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,830 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,725 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,423 | 5.7 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,224 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,524 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,901 | 5.1 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,203 | 16.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Valla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Valla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Valla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Valla, and how old are they?
An estimated 93 Americans named Valla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 184 people named Valla (173 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 109 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,774 babies since 1880, Valla is the sixth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 412 babies recorded by SSA was a Valla (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Valla
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 Valla and names like it
- Compare Valla and VallieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sValla peaked in 1918.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Valla since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Valla.
- Names starting with VMost given first.