Val
Val is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 527th, in 1952.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1952178 births
- Best rank
- #527in 1952
- Since 1882
- 7,383people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,634 boys have been named Val in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 178 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 26%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Val is used for both sexes: 24% of its bearers are girls (1,749), most of them born around 1958.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Val | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 19 | |
| 1900s | 56 | |
| 1910s | 237 | |
| 1920s | 436 | |
| 1930s | 701 | |
| 1940s | 972 | |
| 1950s | 1,475 | |
| 1960s | 801 | |
| 1970s | 356 | |
| 1980s | 147 | |
| 1990s | 151 | |
| 2000s | 119 | |
| 2010s | 81 | |
| 2020s | 68 |
In 1952, its biggest year
Val was the 527th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1952 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1952.
Names that rose and fell with Val
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tedpeak 1958
- Freddiepeak 1947
- Allanpeak 1947
- Glennpeak 1962
- Richardpeak 1946
- Jeromepeak 1954
- Bennypeak 1948
- Waynepeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.