Valery

What Valery means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Valery yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,209 in 2015 to #743 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Valery?

US: Rising: up from #1209 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 366 girls got the name (#743 that year). First in the US records in 1920.

How common

• About 1 in 4,391 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 63,320 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CT (0.7 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.55 per 1,000 girls), NJ (0.48 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Valery is #743 in the US and #4867 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.7% of US babies named Valery were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Valora13 US
• Valeri10 US
• Valory10 US
• Vallery9 US
• Valera7 US
• Vallory7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Valery

Girls

• Natalia#144“birthday (of the Lord)”^*
• Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Sophie#55French form of Sophia, meaning “wisdom”^*
• Azaria#638Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1988, with 6 babies
• Lilianna#890Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1980, with 6 babies
• Livia#819Editor’s note Down from #724 in 2015 to #819 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Julien#709Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #709 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Lukas#288“a man from Lucania”^*
• Magnus#763“great”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Valery’s. Rank is US 2025.