# Valarie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/valarie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 18,714 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 18,714 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 59 | 2,942 |
| 2012 | 36 | 4,207 |
| 2013 | 75 | 2,434 |
| 2014 | 39 | 3,919 |
| 2015 | 49 | 3,345 |
| 2016 | 34 | 4,341 |
| 2017 | 47 | 3,382 |
| 2018 | 45 | 3,491 |
| 2019 | 42 | 3,664 |
| 2020 | 30 | 4,537 |
| 2021 | 43 | 3,609 |
| 2022 | 48 | 3,362 |
| 2023 | 47 | 3,427 |
| 2024 | 74 | 2,460 |
| 2025 | 48 | 3,294 |

## People named Valarie

- Valarie Allman, American discus thrower
- Valarie Pettiford, American actor and singer (b. 1960)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.