Vale

At the 2020 census, 3,296 Americans bore the surname Vale — 9,444th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 90,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,296
Rank: 9,444th
How common: 1 in 90,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Vale described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 56.3%
Hispanic or Latino 34.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Vale

Angélica Vale (born 1969)Mexican actress
Madalena Iglésias do Vale (1939–2018)Portuguese singer and actress
Bruno Vale (born 1983)Portuguese footballer
Jerry Vale (1932–2014)American singer
Harvey Vale (born 2003)Irish association football player
Natália do Vale (born 1953)Brazilian actress
Ronald Vale (born 1959)American biochemist

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

Surnames like Vale

Also a first name

Vale has been given to 539 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.