How popular is “Valerie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Valerie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Valerie” 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 “Valerie” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Valerie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Valerie” 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
1884	8	0.000032859	8		100%
1887	7	0.000028295	7		100%
1888	5	0.000016696	5		100%
1889	12	0.00004153	12		100%
1890	12	0.000039814	12		100%
1891	12	0.00004186	12		100%
1892	11	0.000032897	11		100%
1893	10	0.000030748	10		100%
1894	17	0.000050193	17		100%
1895	19	0.000054128	19		100%
1896	11	0.000030771	11		100%
1897	16	0.000046115	16		100%
1898	21	0.000055052	21		100%
1899	12	0.000035374	12		100%
1900	21	0.00004664	21		100%
1901	19	0.000054943	19		100%
1902	19	0.00004913	19		100%
1903	17	0.000044596	17		100%
1904	27	0.000066917	27		100%
1905	25	0.000058973	25		100%
1906	25	0.00005835	25		100%
1907	31	0.000066611	31		100%
1908	28	0.000057301	28		100%
1909	47	0.000091936	47		100%
1910	45	0.000076179	45		100%
1911	58	0.000090023	58		100%
1912	87	0.000088051	87		100%
1913	116	0.000102013	116		100%
1914	103	0.000072722	103		100%
1915	171	0.000093319	171		100%
1916	179	0.000092534	179		100%
1917	182	0.000090694	182		100%
1918	202	0.00009304	202		100%
1919	171	0.000081033	171		100%
1920	170	0.000075133	170		100%
1921	190	0.000081388	190		100%
1922	147	0.000064216	147		100%
1923	155	0.000067319	155		100%
1924	172	0.00007222	172		100%
1925	151	0.000064715	151		100%
1926	171	0.00007448	171		100%
1927	195	0.000084075	195		100%
1928	179	0.000079171	179		100%
1929	180	0.000082111	180		100%
1930	222	0.000099852	222		100%
1931	244	0.000115948	244		100%
1932	276	0.000130726	276		100%
1933	293	0.000146541	293		100%
1934	319	0.000153601	319		100%
1935	486	0.000232547	486		100%
1936	458	0.000220449	453	5	98%
1937	494	0.000231852	494		100%
1938	551	0.000249031	551		100%
1939	622	0.000282286	622		100%
1940	807	0.00035046	799	8	98%
1941	752	0.000308649	752		100%
1942	1017	0.00037228	1017		100%
1943	955	0.000338345	955		100%
1944	921	0.000342369	915	6	99%
1945	1079	0.000406723	1079		100%
1946	1440	0.000450661	1440		100%
1947	1553	0.000431111	1553		100%
1948	2137	0.000618969	2132	5	100%
1949	3062	0.000878679	3052	10	99%
1950	3035	0.000866312	3026	9	99%
1951	3564	0.000967495	3559	5	100%
1952	4273	0.001125064	4263	10	100%
1953	4601	0.001193935	4591	10	100%
1954	4923	0.001236715	4917	6	100%
1955	5523	0.001375564	5512	11	100%
1956	5922	0.00143632	5910	12	100%
1957	6250	0.001487336	6231	19	99%
1958	6937	0.001678075	6919	18	99%
1959	7320	0.001760465	7304	16	100%
1960	6732	0.001620679	6717	15	100%
1961	6697	0.001616734	6675	22	99%
1962	6358	0.001575567	6335	23	99%
1963	6185	0.001562579	6173	12	100%
1964	6628	0.001704906	6616	12	100%
1965	5667	0.001563117	5649	18	99%
1966	4827	0.001388803	4815	12	100%
1967	4775	0.001406523	4757	18	99%
1968	4561	0.001350042	4552	9	100%
1969	4308	0.001239597	4298	10	100%
1970	4143	0.001148755	4130	13	99%
1971	3693	0.001075938	3680	13	99%
1972	3213	0.001022274	3193	20	99%
1973	3059	0.001013959	3042	17	99%
1974	3195	0.001050987	3182	13	99%
1975	3239	0.001072732	3227	12	99%
1976	3397	0.001119533	3386	11	99%
1977	3281	0.0010329	3265	16	99%
1978	3314	0.001044151	3299	15	99%
1979	3430	0.001030959	3407	23	99%
1980	3639	0.001056465	3613	26	99%
1981	3625	0.001047877	3611	14	99%
1982	4007	0.001142259	3989	18	99%
1983	3920	0.001131856	3902	18	99%
1984	3738	0.001071442	3722	16	99%
1985	3898	0.001092149	3881	17	99%
1986	3636	0.001022187	3618	18	99%
1987	2977	0.000825657	2964	13	99%
1988	2777	0.000751547	2768	9	99%
1989	2574	0.000669537	2562	12	99%
1990	2445	0.000618599	2428	17	99%
1991	2389	0.000613309	2380	9	99%
1992	2350	0.000611776	2350		100%
1993	2182	0.000578737	2175	7	99%
1994	2010	0.000540664	2010		100%
1995	2188	0.000597462	2182	6	99%
1996	2082	0.00057085	2082		100%
1997	2224	0.000613391	2224		100%
1998	2142	0.000582349	2142		100%
1999	2038	0.000551725	2038		100%
2000	2023	0.000535199	2017	6	99%
2001	1988	0.000531069	1982	6	99%
2002	2116	0.000566034	2107	9	99%
2003	1918	0.000504429	1913	5	99%
2004	1912	0.000500403	1905	7	99%
2005	2041	0.000530841	2035	6	99%
2006	2752	0.000695619	2752		100%
2007	2424	0.000606351	2424		100%
2008	2505	0.000637297	2505		100%
2009	2321	0.000607564	2321		100%
2010	2065	0.000558752	2065		100%
2011	1957	0.000535022	1957		100%
2012	1863	0.000509383	1863		100%
2013	1880	0.000515681	1880		100%
2014	1886	0.000508853	1886		100%
2015	1880	0.000507983	1880		100%
2016	1966	0.000535885	1966		100%
2017	1824	0.000510039	1824		100%
2018	1801	0.000512245	1801		100%
2019	1890	0.000544522	1890		100%
2020	1881	0.000563076	1881		100%
2021	1840	0.000543101	1840		100%
2022	1986	0.000587029	1986		100%
2023	1951	0.000589213	1951		100%
2024	1985	0.000596365	1985		100%

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