How Many People Are Named Valery?
people named Valery are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 39,890 people in the US has this name
Based on 8,932 babies named Valery in Social Security records from 1914 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
395 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Derived from the Germanic elements walha "foreign" and ric "power". It has been frequently confused with the name Valère.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Valery, 99.2% were girls and 0.8% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1940s: 96.1% of the babies were girls then and 99.5% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Valery alive today is about 20 years old, and 81% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 24 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Valery first appears in the records in 1914 and was given most often in 2006, to 395 babies. In 2025, 371 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1914 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Valery has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #716, in 2006. In 2025 it ranked #744.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #744 |
| Best rank | #716 (2006) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,088 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Valery alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Valery were born in California than in any other state: about 1,791 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Valery was given 2.1 times as often in California, 2.1 times in New Jersey and 2 times in Florida.
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