Valley — #1516 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Valley

The Social Security Administration has registered 668 babies named Valley between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Valley currently holds the #1516 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 142 babies received it in a single year. Valley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 50 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Valley performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 318 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Valley shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Valley in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Valley 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 668 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.