Valera
Valera is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191938 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1896
- 1,056people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,056 girls have been named Valera in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 38 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 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 25%.
By decade
In 1919, its biggest year
Valera was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Valera
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Orenepeak 1919
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Theolapeak 1924
- Berniecepeak 1918
- Mozellpeak 1925
- Elverapeak 1921
- Berneicepeak 1918
- Alverapeak 1918
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.