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Valencia vs Valeriano

American parents have registered 12,209 Valencias since 1880, against 121 Valerianos. Valencia is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Valencia against Valeriano, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Valencia Valeriano

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Valencia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1934, when Valencia had 13 and Valeriano had 6.

Side by side

  Valencia Valeriano
Total US births 12,209121
Most in one year 2618
Babies in 2025 118under 5
Estimated living today 11,00090
Median age today 3940
Peak year 19701928
Best rank 633rd girls3,076th boys
Rank in 2025 1,721stunranked
First recorded 19191928
Girls / boys 12,198 / 110 / 121

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Valencia Valeriano
France 8045

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Valencia and Valeriano.