Valda vs Valentino

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Valda Valentino

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

Of the 125 years in which either name was published, Valentino for 74 years and Valda for 51 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1897–1925 Valda ahead
• 1926–1928 Valentino ahead
• 1929 Valda ahead
• 1930 Valentino ahead
• 1931–1942 Valda ahead
• 1943–1945 Valentino ahead
• 1946–1951 Valda ahead
• 1952 Valentino ahead
• 1953–1959 Valda ahead
• 1960–2025 Valentino ahead

Side by side

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 Valdas alive today are over 69; half the Valentinos are over 10. That is 59 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Valda Texas (8.0×)
• Valentino Nevada (4.6×), Florida (3.8×), Arizona (3.1×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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