# Valery (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/valery/  
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 | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,932 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 107 / 8,825 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 23, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From French Valéry, from Latin Valerius. Doublet of Valerius.

## 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 | 224 | 1,104 |
| 2012 | 207 | 1,195 |
| 2013 | 232 | 1,070 |
| 2014 | 191 | 1,266 |
| 2015 | 206 | 1,212 |
| 2016 | 241 | 1,081 |
| 2017 | 234 | 1,086 |
| 2018 | 264 | 993 |
| 2019 | 306 | 882 |
| 2020 | 291 | 905 |
| 2021 | 303 | 895 |
| 2022 | 352 | 803 |
| 2023 | 335 | 824 |
| 2024 | 359 | 786 |
| 2025 | 366 | 744 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 5 | 4,163 |
| 1950 | 5 | 4,163 |
| 1953 | 5 | 4,304 |
| 1955 | 6 | 3,862 |
| 1956 | 6 | 3,912 |
| 1957 | 7 | 3,538 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,602 |
| 1977 | 8 | 4,567 |
| 1982 | 7 | 5,597 |
| 1983 | 5 | 7,291 |
| 1984 | 5 | 7,294 |
| 1988 | 5 | 8,440 |
| 2016 | 5 | 14,058 |
| 2024 | 5 | 14,111 |
| 2025 | 5 | 13,752 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 2,893 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Valery

- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French official and politician (1926–2020)
- Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Valery Levaneuski, Belarusian politician
- Valery Tsilent, Belarusian wrestler
- Valery Khodemchuk, Chernobyl pump operator, the first casualty of the incident on April 26th, 1986.
- Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian and French footballer (1983-2014)
- Valery Kechinov, footballer
- Valéry Inkijinoff, French actor
- Valery Strypeykis, Belarusian footballer
- Valery Nahayo, Burundian footballer
- Valery Kaykov, cyclist
- Valery Volkov, equestrian

## 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.