girls:
11.9k births since 1919
#1442 (75th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1988
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
11.9k births since 1919
#2412 (69th percentile)
The name Valencia is the #2,412 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,903 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 68.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,442 (74.8% percentile) for all time with 11,892 births since 1919. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1988.
Valencia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Valencia is available in 99 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023 (99 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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.
The name Valencia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Valencia reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 31.3% percentile (ranked #531) with 142 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 142 births per million (ranked 31.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Valencia ranks #773 for girls (18.4% percentile) with 102 births per million, which is 71.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Valencia reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Valencia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Valencia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.0% confident that Valencia is pronounced as vuh-LEHN-see-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vuh-LEHN-shuh, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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