Valorie
Valorie was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,827 among girls’ names; 7,556 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,370 Americans named Valorie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 46 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Valorie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Valorie?
#3,827 among girls’ names, 2025
Valorie rose from #6,221 in 2015 to #3,827 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 24.3 per million.
266 babies in 1958, the peak
Valorie peaked in 1958, when 266 girls were given it, #610 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,827 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,012 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,644 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,192 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,555 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,536 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,997 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,077 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,023 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,601 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (105)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,221 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,692 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 18 | #7,009 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,559 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,317 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,963 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,087 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,736 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,466 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,539 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,476 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,940 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,930 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,062 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,309 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,173 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,193 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,347 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,097 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,625 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,089 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,678 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,243 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,966 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,412 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,148 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,979 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,859 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,195 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,667 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,602 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 65 | #1,701 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 75 | #1,520 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,652 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,885 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 89 | #1,407 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 59 | #1,831 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 78 | #1,472 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 83 | #1,369 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 77 | #1,396 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 77 | #1,380 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 89 | #1,238 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 115 | #1,027 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 114 | #1,029 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 140 | #930 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 153 | #876 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 148 | #858 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 169 | #772 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 144 | #846 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 149 | #816 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 169 | #763 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 239 | #661 | 0.13 |
| 1963 | 218 | #683 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 219 | #697 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 228 | #693 | 0.11 |
| 1960 | 223 | #683 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 246 | #636 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 266 | #610 | 0.13 |
| 1957 | 253 | #619 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 253 | #596 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 255 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1954 | 224 | #607 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 208 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 242 | #553 | 0.13 |
| 1951 | 202 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 213 | #570 | 0.12 |
| 1949 | 120 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 72 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 55 | #1,225 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 51 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,479 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,311 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 39 | #1,322 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,756 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,499 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,679 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 17 | #2,015 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,908 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,559 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,138 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,390 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,543 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,203 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #4,011 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #4,018 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,157 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,755 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,637 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,638 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,964 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,766 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,771 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,889 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Valorie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Valorie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 105 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Valorie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Valorie, and how old are they?
6,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 7,556 Americans ever recorded as Valorie. The median Valorie alive today is 61 years old; half are between 46 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 6,092 people named Valorie (6,088 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,531 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 124 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,020 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,710 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 748 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 451 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 319 |
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 Valorie born?
The states with the most babies named Valorie are California, Texas and New York, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 696 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 488 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 274 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 247 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 247 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 241 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 231 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 216 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 176 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 121 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Valorie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Valorie is most over-represented in Florida: since 1916 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Valorie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 384,765 babies since 1880, Valorie is the fourth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 4,166 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
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 Valorie
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 Valorie and names like it
- Compare Valorie and ValerieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sValorie peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Valorie since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Valorie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Valorie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.