Valory
Valory was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,058 among girls’ names; 339 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Valory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Valory?
#10,058 among girls’ names, 2025
Valory entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,058 in 2025.
16 babies in 1955, the peak
Valory peaked in 1955, when 16 girls were given it, #2,962 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,058 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,513 | 6.8 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,165 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,365 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,548 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,006 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,690 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,869 | 5.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,658 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,300 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #17,025 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,285 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,525 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,440 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,938 | 3.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,778 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,730 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,525 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,161 | 2.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #12,110 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,403 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,241 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,280 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,807 | 5.1 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,435 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,846 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,480 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,735 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,555 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,534 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,531 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 11 | #4,015 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,373 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,340 | 3.4 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,962 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,714 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,914 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,186 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,802 | 8.3 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,215 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,623 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,920 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,660 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,193 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,169 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Valory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Valory has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Valory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Valory, and how old are they?
An estimated 293 Americans named Valory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 20 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 374 people named Valory (365 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 273 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above 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).
How common is the spelling Valory?
Valory is a less common spelling of Valorie: SSA has recorded 339 Valory and 7,556 Valorie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,299 babies since 1880, Valory is the seventh most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 459 babies (2.2%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Valory
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Melodee | 2,722 |
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 Valory and names like it
- Compare Valory and ValorieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sValory peaked in 1955.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Valory.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Valory alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.