Valor
Valor is given to both girls and boys: 21 girls and 159 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,899 among girls’ names and #1,254 among boys’, #2,377 among all names counting both); 1,680 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Valor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Valor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Valor?
#1,254 among boys’ names, 2025
Valor rose from #1,890 in 2015 to #1,254 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 40.7 to 93.1 per million.
180 babies in 2025, the peak
Valor peaked in 2025, when 180 babies were given it (159 boys, #1,254 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 124 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,899 | 159 | #1,254 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,570 | 124 | #1,470 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,655 | 123 | #1,470 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,202 | 96 | #1,748 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,234 | 112 | #1,564 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,300 | 134 | #1,342 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,568 | 101 | #1,633 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,502 | 102 | #1,616 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,305 | 94 | #1,694 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,361 | 91 | #1,723 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,281 | 78 | #1,890 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,482 | 53 | #2,425 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,109 | 43 | #2,758 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,874 | 42 | #2,862 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 18 | #5,179 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 15 | #6,012 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 13 | #6,780 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 17 | #5,470 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #14,274 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 7 | #10,592 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 12 | #6,603 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 8 | #8,868 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 10 | #7,209 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 10 | #7,002 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #8,158 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #9,578 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #8,809 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #8,434 |
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 Valor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,680 Americans recorded as Valor, 11% are girls and 89% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Valor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Valor, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,680 Americans ever recorded as Valor. The median Valor alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 816 people named Valor (110 women and girls, 706 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 855 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 176 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,480 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Valor born?
The states with the most babies named Valor are Texas, Pennsylvania and Colorado, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Colorado is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,214 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #842 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 10 | #568 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #929 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,080 | 0.5× |
| California | 7 | #2,187 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 6 | #940 | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 6 | #759 | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,175 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,457 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Valor with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Valor
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 Valor and names like it
- Compare Valor and HuntleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sValor peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Valor since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Valor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Valor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.