girls:
8.1k births since 1920
#1812 (68th percentile)
boys:
97 births since 1914
#4489 (2nd percentile)
overall:
8.2k births since 1914
#2983 (61st percentile)
The name Valery is the #2,983 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,196 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 61.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,812 (68.3% percentile) for all time with 8,099 births since 1920. For boys, it ranks #4,489 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 97 births since 1914.
Valery first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1920 for girls). Birth data for Valery is available in 99 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (98 years for girls and 17 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 Valery has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1920, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1914 to 1919), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (98.9% girls from 1920 to 2023).
For girls, Valery reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 38.1% percentile (ranked #598) with 189 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 196 births per million (ranked 35.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Valery is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #630 (33.5% percentile) with 192 births per million.
For boys, Valery reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #671) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Valery".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Valery. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.3% confident that Valery is pronounced as VA-ler-ee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vuh-LER-ee, at 13.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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