girls:
3.3k births since 1880
#3021 (47th percentile)
boys:
143 births since 1897
#4443 (3rd percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1880
#4672 (40th percentile)
The name Vallie is the #4,672 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,427 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 39.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,021 (47.1% percentile) for all time with 3,284 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,443 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 143 births since 1897.
Vallie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1897 for boys). Birth data for Vallie is available in 125 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (125 years for girls and 19 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 Vallie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Vallie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 13.6% percentile (ranked #483) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 196 births per million (ranked 9.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Vallie ranks #886 for girls (6.4% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 19.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Vallie reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #543) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 41 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1958.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vallie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Vallie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.5% confident that Vallie is pronounced as VA-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VAW-lee, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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