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Valarie vs Valeriano

American parents have registered 18,714 Valaries since 1880, against 121 Valerianos. Valarie is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Valarie against Valeriano, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Valarie Valeriano

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Valarie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1910 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1928, when Valarie had 12 and Valeriano had 8.

Side by side

  Valarie Valeriano
Total US births 18,714121
Most in one year 6418
Babies in 2025 48under 5
Estimated living today 16,00090
Median age today 5540
Peak year 19641928
Best rank 379th girls3,076th boys
Rank in 2025 3,249thunranked
First recorded 19101928
Girls / boys 18,714 / 00 / 121

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Valaries alive today are over 55; half the Valerianos are over 40. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Valarie and Valeriano.