Valarie
Valarie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 74 births. Its best rank was 379th, in 1964.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 740.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1964641 births
- Best rank
- #379in 1964
- Since 1910
- 18,666people given the name
The story in the numbers
18,666 girls have been named Valarie in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 641 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1960s alone account for 28%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Valarie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 80 | |
| 1920s | 126 | |
| 1930s | 192 | |
| 1940s | 857 | |
| 1950s | 3,407 | |
| 1960s | 5,166 | |
| 1970s | 3,254 | |
| 1980s | 2,580 | |
| 1990s | 1,281 | |
| 2000s | 980 | |
| 2010s | 501 | |
| 2020s | 242 |
In 1964, its biggest year
Valarie was the 379th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1964 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Valarie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Reneepeak 1962
- Lissapeak 1963
- Janapeak 1961
- Juleepeak 1970
- Carlapeak 1962
- Janinepeak 1960
- Martipeak 1969
- Charipeak 1960
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.