Valor — #1460 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Valor

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,332 babies named Valor between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Valor currently holds the #1460 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 134 babies received it in a single year. Valor is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 167 additional births since 2012.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Valor performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 637 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Valor shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 135 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Valor in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Valor 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 1,332 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.