Vallen
Vallen is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 16 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,090 among girls’ names and #5,830 among boys’, #9,625 among all names counting both); 317 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vallen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vallen?
#5,830 among boys’ names, 2025
Vallen rose from #6,648 in 2015 to #5,830 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 9.4 per million.
31 babies in 2021, the peak
Vallen peaked in 2021, when 31 babies were given it (19 boys, #5,093 among boys’ names). The 23 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,090 | 16 | #5,830 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,369 | 21 | #4,870 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 18 | #5,444 | |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,160 | 11 | #7,721 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,936 | 19 | #5,093 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 12 | #6,999 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 14 | #6,382 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 14 | #6,313 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 12 | #7,065 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 15 | #6,032 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 13 | #6,648 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 13 | #6,598 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 7 | #10,651 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,706 | 7 | #10,683 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 9 | #8,707 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 13 | #6,674 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #14,370 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 7 | #10,965 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #12,260 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #11,965 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #13,238 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #12,387 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,481 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,729 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,686 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,193 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Vallen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 317 Americans recorded as Vallen, 22% are girls and 78% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vallen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vallen, and how old are they?
An estimated 314 Americans named Vallen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 303 people named Vallen (96 women and girls, 207 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
How common is the spelling Vallen?
Vallen is a less common spelling of Valen: SSA has recorded 317 Vallen and 1,880 Valen since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,764 babies since 1880, Vallen is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 169 babies (14%), again the second most given.
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 Vallen
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 Vallen and names like it
- Compare Vallen and ValenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sVallen peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vallen since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Vallen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vallen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.