Valley
Valley was given to 207 girls in 2025, #1,131 among girls’ names; 935 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Valley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Valley?
#1,131 among girls’ names, 2025
Valley rose from #14,387 in 2015 to #1,131 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.00 to 0.13 per 1,000.
213 babies in 2025, the peak
Valley peaked in 2025, when 213 babies were given it (207 girls, #1,131 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 144 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 207 | #1,131 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 144 | #1,508 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,583 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,645 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,487 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,063 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,996 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,571 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,420 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,956 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,387 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,896 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,895 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,707 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,743 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,388 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,665 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,532 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,812 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,978 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,711 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,264 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,190 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,896 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,137 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,810 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,373 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,684 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,754 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,671 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,761 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,924 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,881 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,203 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,770 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,065 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,367 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,402 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,126 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,529 | 0.01 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,086 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,631 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,471 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,925 | 0.02 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Valley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 935 Americans recorded as Valley, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 207 girls and 6 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Valley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Valley, and how old are they?
An estimated 713 Americans named Valley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 2 years old and half are between 1 and 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 362 people named Valley (279 women and girls, 83 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 196 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,148 babies since 1880, Valley is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 213 of their 405 babies (53%), the most given that year.
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 Valley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Magnolia | 23,403 |
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 Valley and names like it
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