Valerie
Valerie stands at #127 nationally in 2025, and gathering speed. It crested back in 1959, and what is left is the good kind of familiar: heard of, rarely met.
What Valerie carries
Valerie · Latin
“healthy”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Valerie’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Valerie, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Valerie since 1884
Valerie peaked in 1959 at #60; #127 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Valerie is most common
The state that gives Valerie most often, per girls born there, is Alaska (0.48% in 2025); Nevada and Delaware are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Valerie
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Vincent
#107 in 2025 · Latin
Timothy
#203 in 2025 · Latin
Valeria
#162 in 2025 · Latin
Vivienne
#172 in 2025 · Latin
Alan
#191 in 2025 · Latin
Patrick
#235 in 2025 · Latin
Diana
#244 in 2025 · Latin
Mark
#245 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with V · Latin names · all names
About Valerie
Where does Valerie rank right now?
Valerie stands at #127 nationally in 2025, and gathering speed. The chart above draws the whole run since 1884, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Valerie have a meaning on record?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “healthy”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Valerie?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Vincent sits closest, with Timothy and Valeria just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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