Valena vs Valentina
American parents have registered 65,166 Valentinas since 1880, against 684 Valenas. Valentina is still ahead, with 5,361 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Valena Valentina
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 122 years in which either name was published, Valentina for 120 years and Valena for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.
Side by side
| Valena | Valentina | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 684 | 65,166 |
| Most in one year | 21 | 5,361 |
| Babies in 2025 | 21 | 5,361 |
| Estimated living today | 490 | 64,000 |
| Median age today | 46 | 8 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 5,722nd girls | 35th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,722nd | 35th |
| First recorded | 1907 | 1897 |
| Girls / boys | 684 / 0 | 65,147 / 19 |
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 Valentinas are over 8. That is 38 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 Valentina.