Valerie

girls:

269k births since 1884

#147 (97th percentile)

boys:

693 births since 1936

#3894 (15th percentile)

overall:

269.7k births since 1884

#292 (96th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Valerie".

1884 2023 18842023

Key Statistics

Total Births
268,997
Peak Births
7,306
Peak Year
1959
First Recorded
1884
Peak Percentile
92.3%
Current Percentile
85.2%
Peak Rank
#60
Current Rank
#141
Female statistics
Total Births
693
Peak Births
26
Peak Year
1980
First Recorded
1936
Peak Percentile
3.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#519
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Valerie

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Valerie. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 88.6% confident that Valerie is pronounced as VA-ler-ee. The next most likely pronunciation is VA-ler-EE, at 11.4% confidence.

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VA-ler-EE (3 syllables)
11.4% confidence
V AE1 L ER0 IY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Valerie. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Valerie, please vote using the thumbs up button.

VA-luh-ree (3 syllables)
8 names 20.6k births
V AE1 L AH0 R IY0
VAL-ree (2 syllables)
5 names 9.3k births
V AE1 L R IY0

About Pronunciation Data

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 ER0 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.

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.