# Valeri (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/valeri/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,940 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 1,940 (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 | 12 | 9,688 |
| 2012 | 9 | 12,148 |
| 2013 | 8 | 13,075 |
| 2014 | 13 | 8,935 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,778 |
| 2016 | 12 | 9,389 |
| 2017 | 12 | 9,308 |
| 2018 | 14 | 8,127 |
| 2019 | 11 | 9,692 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,545 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,940 |
| 2022 | 11 | 9,633 |
| 2023 | 20 | 6,151 |
| 2024 | 20 | 6,144 |
| 2025 | 10 | 10,060 |

## People named Valeri

- Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer
- Valeri Popenchenko, boxer (1937–1975)
- Valeri Qazaishvili, Georgian footballer
- Valeri Domovchiyski, Bulgarian footballer
- Valeri Popovitch, Finnish-Russian footballer
- Valeri Aleksanyan, Armenian football player
- Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian writer, poet and translator (1920–2014)
- Valeri Simeonov, Bulgarian politician
- Valeri Nikitin, Estonian wrestler (born 1969)
- Valeri Abramidze, footballer
- Valery Bolotov, eastern Ukrainian political figure (1970—2017)
- Valery Aleksyev, anthropologist (1929–1991)

## 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.