Latin origin
Source-reportedFrom French Valéry, from Latin Valerius. Doublet of Valerius.
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- Wiktionary: ValeryCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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01 / Meaning & origin
Valery is a unisex given name documented in English. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Valerius via French.
Separate records with matching spellings: Valery (English), Valéry (French), Valéry (French)
2 source accounts
From French Valéry, from Latin Valerius. Doublet of Valerius.
A variant of Valerie, from French Valérie, from Latin Valeria.
02 / Across borders
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United States, 2025: 366 girls (rank 743). Documented as a given name in English.
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03 / By the numbers
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1900–2025 Spelling: VALERY
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 25 | 246 | rounded |
| 1901 | 20 | 294 | rounded |
| 1902 | 20 | 292 | rounded |
| 1903 | 25 | 267 | rounded |
| 1904 | 25 | 262 | rounded |
| 1905 | 30 | 248 | rounded |
| 1906 | 25 | 266 | rounded |
| 1907 | 30 | 254 | rounded |
| 1908 | 25 | 267 | rounded |
| 1909 | 25 | 278 | rounded |
| 1910 | 30 | 253 | rounded |
| 1911 | 20 | 291 | rounded |
| 1912 | 25 | 277 | rounded |
| 1913 | 25 | 280 | rounded |
| 1914 | 25 | 271 | rounded |
| 1915 | 20 | 272 | rounded |
| 1916 | 15 | 290 | rounded |
| 1917 | 15 | 306 | rounded |
| 1918 | 5 | 405 | rounded |
| 1919 | 15 | 294 | rounded |
| 1920 | 25 | 287 | rounded |
| 1921 | 25 | 278 | rounded |
| 1922 | 10 | 383 | rounded |
| 1923 | 25 | 277 | rounded |
| 1924 | 15 | 370 | rounded |
| 1925 | 15 | 374 | rounded |
| 1926 | 10 | 444 | rounded |
| 1927 | 15 | 422 | rounded |
| 1928 | 15 | 372 | rounded |
| 1929 | 10 | 487 | rounded |
| 1930 | 10 | 496 | rounded |
| 1931 | 10 | 432 | rounded |
| 1932 | 10 | 566 | rounded |
| 1933 | 5 | 541 | rounded |
| 1934 | 5 | 669 | rounded |
| 1935 | 5 | 568 | rounded |
| 1936 | 5 | 658 | rounded |
| 1937 | 5 | 508 | rounded |
| 1938 | 5 | 508 | rounded |
| 1939 | 5 | 550 | rounded |
| 1940 | 10 | 465 | rounded |
| 1941 | 10 | 419 | rounded |
| 1942 | 10 | 452 | rounded |
| 1943 | 5 | 563 | rounded |
| 1944 | 5 | 603 | rounded |
| 1945 | 10 | 449 | rounded |
| 1946 | 5 | 652 | rounded |
| 1947 | 5 | 809 | rounded |
| 1948 | 5 | 664 | rounded |
| 1949 | 5 | 744 | rounded |
| 1950 | 10 | 506 | rounded |
| 1951 | 5 | 777 | rounded |
| 1952 | 10 | 593 | rounded |
| 1953 | 5 | 731 | rounded |
| 1954 | 5 | 799 | rounded |
| 1955 | 5 | 763 | rounded |
| 1956 | 5 | 718 | rounded |
| 1957 | 5 | 875 | rounded |
| 1958 | 10 | 659 | rounded |
| 1959 | 15 | 550 | rounded |
| 1960 | 10 | 658 | rounded |
| 1961 | 20 | 508 | rounded |
| 1962 | 50 | 281 | rounded |
| 1963 | 150 | 169 | rounded |
| 1964 | 180 | 158 | rounded |
| 1965 | 185 | 161 | rounded |
| 1966 | 240 | 150 | rounded |
| 1967 | 215 | 161 | rounded |
| 1968 | 210 | 166 | rounded |
| 1969 | 220 | 174 | rounded |
| 1970 | 305 | 151 | rounded |
| 1971 | 280 | 173 | rounded |
| 1972 | 235 | 197 | rounded |
| 1973 | 210 | 208 | rounded |
| 1974 | 290 | 175 | rounded |
| 1975 | 235 | 190 | rounded |
| 1976 | 135 | 241 | rounded |
| 1977 | 90 | 309 | rounded |
| 1978 | 95 | 289 | rounded |
| 1979 | 90 | 318 | rounded |
| 1980 | 75 | 363 | rounded |
| 1981 | 60 | 416 | rounded |
| 1982 | 45 | 499 | rounded |
| 1983 | 45 | 473 | rounded |
| 1984 | 25 | 717 | rounded |
| 1985 | 20 | 832 | rounded |
| 1986 | 30 | 616 | rounded |
| 1987 | 30 | 629 | rounded |
| 1988 | 20 | 804 | rounded |
| 1989 | 20 | 869 | rounded |
| 1990 | 15 | 996 | rounded |
| 1991 | 20 | 875 | rounded |
| 1992 | 10 | 1,513 | rounded |
| 1993 | 10 | 1,377 | rounded |
| 1994 | 10 | 1,408 | rounded |
| 1995 | 5 | 2,091 | rounded |
| 1996 | 5 | 2,251 | rounded |
| 1997 | 10 | 1,663 | rounded |
| 1998 | 10 | 1,522 | rounded |
| 1999 | 5 | 2,413 | rounded |
| 2000 | 5 | 3,079 | rounded |
| 2001 | 5 | 2,482 | rounded |
| 2002 | 5 | 2,999 | rounded |
| 2003 | 10 | 2,081 | rounded |
| 2004 | 15 | 1,658 | rounded |
| 2005 | 10 | 2,297 | rounded |
| 2006 | 5 | 3,703 | rounded |
| 2007 | 5 | 2,983 | rounded |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,183 | rounded |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,738 | rounded |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,555 | rounded |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | 5 | 5,446 | rounded |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “VALERY” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Valery— “slaughter ruler”
Walabert, a monk who died at Luxen, in 625, is the same as the northern Valbjart; and another Valbert, or Vaubert, as he is called in France, had a daughter Valtrud, canonized as St. Vautrude, or Vaudru. From Walamund, the French take Valmont; and Walarik, an Auvergne hermit, was Latinized as Valaricus, and Frenchified into St. Valery, a territorial surname.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section IX (Will) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
