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Valma

About 388 American babies have been named Valma since 1900, most of them around 1919. It has not appeared in the national data since 1964. About 70 Valmas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Valma

By the numbers

Total US births
388
Estimated living today
70
Median age today
74
Peak year
1919
Best rank
1,855th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1900

How old the living Valmas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 388 babies given the name since 1900, about 70 are alive — 18 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 1919

The most popular girls’ names the year Valma peaked:

All the names of 1919

Valma among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Valma 1,002 1,225

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

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Valma against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.