Valena vs Valencia
American parents have registered 12,209 Valencias since 1880, against 684 Valenas. Valencia is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Valena Valencia
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 113 years in which either name was published, Valencia for 97 years and Valena for 16 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.
Side by side
| Valena | Valencia | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 684 | 12,209 |
| Most in one year | 21 | 261 |
| Babies in 2025 | 21 | 118 |
| Estimated living today | 490 | 11,000 |
| Median age today | 46 | 39 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1970 |
| Best rank | 5,722nd girls | 633rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,722nd | 1,721st |
| First recorded | 1907 | 1919 |
| Girls / boys | 684 / 0 | 12,198 / 11 |
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 Valenas alive today are over 46; half the Valencias are over 39. That is 7 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: Valena and Valencia.