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How popular is “Valley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Valley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Valley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Valley” 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
1888 7 0.000023374 7 100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1910 7 0.00001185 7 100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 100%
1919 10 0.000004739 10 100%
1920 17 0.000007513 12 5 41%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 100%
1922 18 0.000007863 13 5 44%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1927 12 0.000005174 6 6 0%
1928 15 0.000006634 6 9 -20%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 100%
1934 9 0.000004334 9 100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 100%
2016 15 0.000004089 15 100%
2017 15 0.000004194 15 100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 100%
2019 17 0.000004898 17 100%
2020 19 0.000005688 19 100%
2021 45 0.000013282 45 100%
2022 43 0.00001271 43 100%
2023 69 0.000020838 69 100%
2024 149 0.000044765 142 7 91%

Explore other names

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