Valor
Valor is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 124 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1240.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2020134 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1988
- 1,499people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,332 boys have been named Valor in the United States since 1988, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 134 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 2019, and the 2010s alone account for 48%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 167 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Valor was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Valor
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kaisonpeak 2020
- Hendrixpeak 2022
- Maverikpeak 2021
- Kassiuspeak 2022
- Mateopeak 2024
- Bodhipeak 2021
- Arhampeak 2024
- Wessonpeak 2021
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.