The first name Valeri
A girl’s name.
3 syllables Female Also a surname
Popularity in the United States
Babies named Valeri at birth, 1880–2025
In 2025, 10 girls born in the United States were named Valeri, the 10,060th most popular girls’ name that year. It was used most in 1964, when 55 were.
1,940
babies named Valeri since 1880
#10,060
rank in 2025
1964
peak year
US Social Security Administration, from applications for a Social Security card. A name is only published for a year when at least five babies were given it, so quieter years show as zero.
Famous people named Valeri
12 on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Valeri BojinovBulgarian footballer, born 1986
- Valeri PopenchenkoBoxer (1937–1975)
- Valeri QazaishviliGeorgian footballer, born 1993
- Valeri DomovchiyskiBulgarian footballer, born 1986
- Valeri PopovitchFinnish-Russian footballer, born 1970
- Valeri AleksanyanArmenian football player, born 1984
- Valeri PetrovBulgarian writer, poet and translator (1920–2014)
- Valeri SimeonovBulgarian politician, born 1955
- Valeri NikitinEstonian wrestler (born 1969)
- Valeri AbramidzeFootballer, born 1980
- Valery BolotovEastern Ukrainian political figure (1970—2017)
- Valery AleksyevAnthropologist (1929–1991)
Questions
- Is Valeri a boy's or a girl's name?
- Mostly a girl's name: 100% of the 1,940 US babies named Valeri since 1880 were girls.
- When was Valeri most popular?
- 1964 in the United States, when 55 babies were named Valeri, its highest rank at 1,547th.
- Is Valeri also a surname?
- Yes. Valeri is used as a surname as well as a first name; its surname page has the origin and how many people carry it.