girls:
2.1k births since 1885
#3732 (35th percentile)
boys:
6.6k births since 1880
#1455 (68th percentile)
overall:
8.7k births since 1880
#2905 (62nd percentile)
The name Valentine is the #2,905 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,683 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 62.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,455 (68.3% percentile) for all time with 6,566 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,732 (34.7% percentile) for all time with 2,117 births since 1885.
Valentine has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1885 for girls).
The name Valentine has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 64.3% of babies named Valentine were boys.
For boys, Valentine reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 25.5% percentile (ranked #340) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 208 births per million (ranked 9.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Valentine ranks #833 for boys (8.6% percentile) with 45 births per million, which is 21.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Valentine reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 8.2% percentile (ranked #530) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 70 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Valentine ranks #906 for girls (4.3% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 37.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Valentine".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Valentine", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 1 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Valentin" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Valentin..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Valentine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.8% confident that Valentine is pronounced as VA-luhn-tain, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VA-luhn-teen, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like V AE1 L AH0 N T AY0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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