Valeria

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Valeria boys named Valeria

By the numbers

Total US births

80,157

Estimated living today

73,000

Median age today

17

Peak year

2008

Best rank

73rd

Rank in 2025

162nd

First recorded

1881

Girls / boys

80,052 / 105

How old the living Valerias are

born that year still alive today

Of the 80,157 babies given the name since 1881, about 73,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 41,000 of them are children and 2,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

Feminine form of Roman family name Valerius, from Latin valere (“to be healthy, to be strong”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Valerias

• Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi (born 1964)Italian and French actress, director, screenwriter
• Valeria Golino (born 1966)Italian model, actress and film director
• Valeria Mazza (born 1972)Argentine model
• Valéria Gyenge (born 1933)Hungarian swimmer
• Valeria Luiselli (born 1983)Mexican writer
• Valeria Răcilă (born 1957)Romanian rower
• Valeria Zholobova (born 1992)Olympic freestyle wrestler
• Valeria Marini (born 1967)Italian model, showgirl and actress

People named Valeria with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Valeria is most common

• CA20,952
• TX16,061
• FL4,883
• IL3,831
• AZ2,822
• NY2,565
• GA2,162
• NC1,856
• CO1,348
• NJ1,324

Relative to how many babies each state records, Valeria is most concentrated in Nevada (3.7×), Arizona (3.0×), Texas (2.8×), California (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2008

The most popular girls’ names the year Valeria peaked:

• Emma
• Isabella
• Emily
• Olivia
• Ava
• Madison

All the names of 2008

Valeria elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Valeria: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Valeria is most concentrated in Zug, where 0.16% of children were given it – 43 of them.

Valeria: rank by region

In 2004, Valeria was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Valeria was among the 10 most common names in 13 regions of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 3 different years.

In 2019, Valeria was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Valeria was given 2 times or more in 9 regions of Poland.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Valeria by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Valeria among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Valeria lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 50,854 women called Valeria were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Valerie
• Valentina
• Valarie
• Valencia
• Valentino
• Valentin
• Valentine
• Valery
• Valorie
• Val
• Vallie
• Valeri

Valeria against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Valeria vs Valerie
• Valeria vs Valentina
• Valeria vs Valarie
• Valeria vs Valencia
• Valeria vs Valentino
• Valeria vs Valentin

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