girls:
18.6k births since 1910
#1083 (81st percentile)
overall:
18.6k births since 1910
#1882 (76th percentile)
The name Valarie is the #1,882 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,591 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 75.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,083 (81.1% percentile) for all time with 18,591 births since 1910.
Valarie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (first recorded for girls in 1910). Birth data for Valarie is available in 113 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Valarie reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 54.2% percentile (ranked #360) with 327 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 327 births per million (ranked 54.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Valarie ranks #905 for girls (4.4% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 8.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Valarie".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Valarie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.1% confident that Valarie is pronounced as VA-ler-ee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vuh-LEH-ree, at 21.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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