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How popular is “Valen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Valen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Valen” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Valen” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Valen” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Valen” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Valen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Valen” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1981 17 0.000004914 11 6 29%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 100%
1983 18 0.000005197 18 100%
1984 16 0.000004586 16 100%
1985 12 0.000003362 12 100%
1986 18 0.00000506 18 100%
1987 11 0.000003051 6 5 9%
1988 19 0.000005142 13 6 37%
1989 22 0.000005723 17 5 55%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 100%
1991 21 0.000005391 15 6 43%
1992 18 0.000004686 8 10 -11%
1993 15 0.000003978 8 7 7%
1994 16 0.000004304 10 6 25%
1995 14 0.000003823 7 7 0%
1996 13 0.000003564 5 8 -23%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1998 17 0.000004622 7 10 -18%
1999 18 0.000004873 9 9 0%
2000 19 0.000005027 6 13 -37%
2001 20 0.000005343 7 13 -30%
2002 21 0.000005618 6 15 -43%
2003 17 0.000004471 17 -100%
2004 28 0.000007328 10 18 -29%
2005 21 0.000005462 21 -100%
2006 20 0.000005055 20 -100%
2007 25 0.000006254 25 -100%
2008 34 0.00000865 8 26 -53%
2009 45 0.00001178 8 37 -64%
2010 41 0.000011094 9 32 -56%
2011 33 0.000009022 5 28 -70%
2012 63 0.000017226 15 48 -52%
2013 46 0.000012618 7 39 -70%
2014 64 0.000017268 10 54 -69%
2015 62 0.000016753 13 49 -58%
2016 79 0.000021534 15 64 -62%
2017 89 0.000024887 16 73 -64%
2018 93 0.000026451 19 74 -59%
2019 90 0.00002593 21 69 -53%
2020 77 0.00002305 10 67 -74%
2021 93 0.00002745 16 77 -66%
2022 108 0.000031923 25 83 -54%
2023 124 0.000037449 22 102 -65%
2024 122 0.000036653 24 98 -61%

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