girls:
76.3k births since 1881
#446 (92nd percentile)
boys:
105 births since 1986
#4481 (2nd percentile)
overall:
76.4k births since 1881
#824 (89th percentile)
The name Valeria is the #824 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 76,439 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 89.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #446 (92.2% percentile) for all time with 76,334 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,481 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 105 births since 1986.
Valeria first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1986 for boys).
The name Valeria has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Valeria reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 92.7% percentile (ranked #73) with 2,019 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 2,020 births per million (ranked 92.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Valeria ranks #151 for girls (84.1% percentile) with 1,063 births per million, which is 52.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Valeria reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #764) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Valeria".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Valeria. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Valeria is pronounced as vuh-LEH-ree-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vuh-LEE-ree-uh, at 15.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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