Valentine
Valentine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 56 births. Its best rank was 366th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 560.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1918142 births
- Best rank
- #366in 1894
- Since 1880
- 8,790people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,622 boys have been named Valentine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 142 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 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Valentine is used for both sexes: 25% of its bearers are girls (2,168), most of them born around 2022.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Valentine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 155 | |
| 1890s | 171 | |
| 1900s | 194 | |
| 1910s | 967 | |
| 1920s | 1,143 | |
| 1930s | 725 | |
| 1940s | 519 | |
| 1950s | 514 | |
| 1960s | 338 | |
| 1970s | 302 | |
| 1980s | 310 | |
| 1990s | 306 | |
| 2000s | 272 | |
| 2010s | 391 | |
| 2020s | 315 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Valentine was the 501st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Valentine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Emilepeak 1922
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Albertpeak 1921
- Louispeak 1921
- Crawfordpeak 1924
- Freemanpeak 1918
- Walterpeak 1918
- Harmonpeak 1921
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.