Valon
Valon was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 240 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Valon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Valon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,246, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2013, the peak
Valon peaked in 2013, when 17 boys were given it, #5,381 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #12,246 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #14,182 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,627 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,906 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,827 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,604 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 6 | #12,139 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #14,053 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,552 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,634 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 17 | #5,381 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,816 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,708 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,804 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,966 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,840 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,526 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #10,085 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #13,107 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,812 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,398 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,522 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,418 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,200 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,948 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,952 | 4.2 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,628 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,487 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,970 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,891 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,715 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Valon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 240 Americans recorded as Valon, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Valon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Valon, and how old are they?
An estimated 235 Americans named Valon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 420 people named Valon (47 women and girls, 373 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 2,764 babies since 1880, Valon is the third most given (8.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 169 babies recorded by SSA was a Valon (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 Valon
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 Valon and names like it
- Compare Valon and ValenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sValon peaked in 2013.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Valon since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Valon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Valon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.