Popularity of the name Valentina, 1897–2025

Valentina has never been more popular than it is now: in 2025, 5,354 girls were named Valentina, about 1 in 300 girls born in the U.S. that year, ranking #35. In all, Social Security counts 65,147 girls named Valentina since 1897. Social Security’s records also list 19 boys named Valentina.

Peak year

2025

Rank in 2025

#35

Babies in 2025

5,354

Total since 1897

65,147

Where it stands now

Over the last ten years it has climbed from #114 in 2015 to #35 in 2025, with 2,751 girls named Valentina in 2015 and 5,354 in 2025.

Decade by decade

Valentina ranked highest in the 2020s so far, at #52, with 24,620 girls given the name that decade. It started at #2,582 in the 1890s.

Every 20 years in the records: 6 in 1900 (#1,723), 36 in 1920 (#1,282), 28 in 1940 (#1,442), 66 in 1960 (#1,354), 76 in 1980 (#1,542), 327 in 2000 (#710) and 3,352 in 2020 (#73).

Highs and lows

The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,354, in 2025. Its best rank, #35, came in its peak year.

Every year

The table lists every year from 1897 to 2025 in which Social Security recorded at least 5 girls named Valentina, with the name’s rank that year.

How these numbers are counted

Social Security publishes, for every year since 1880, how many babies of each sex were given each name, counting any name given to at least 5. A name’s rank is its place that year among names for the same sex, by number of babies. Names with the same count share a rank here, while Social Security’s own lists break ties alphabetically, so a rank can differ from theirs by a place or two. A name’s share is the number of babies given it divided by all babies of that sex in the data that year, and its peak is the year that share was highest. Shares rather than counts set the peak, because far more babies were born in some years than others: counting babies alone would pull nearly every name’s peak toward the 1946–1964 baby boom.

Source: the U.S. Social Security Administration’s national baby name data, from Social Security card applications for babies born in the U.S. A name is left out of a year when fewer than 5 babies of one sex got it, and counts before about 1937 are incomplete, because many people born then never applied for a card. See how Baby Boom builds its data. Figures may contain errors.