girls:
1.9k births since 1948
#3893 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1948
#5853 (24th percentile)
The name Valeri is the #5,853 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,910 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 24.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,893 (31.9% percentile) for all time with 1,910 births since 1948.
Valeri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (first recorded for girls in 1948).
For girls, Valeri reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #734) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 28 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Valeri ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 40.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Valeri".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Valeri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.7% confident that Valeri is pronounced as vah-LEH-ree, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vuh-LEH-ree, at 40.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like V AA0 L EH1 R IY0) 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.
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