The given name Valerie is a French variant of Valeria and has its origin in the Latin ‘valere’ for ‘to be vigorous, to be strong, to be healthy’.
Valerie is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Valerie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Valerie ranks 150. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 12 were named Valerie. In the entire USA, approximately 262,254 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Valerie. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.
#62 - this is the highest position Valerie has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Valerie reached this top position was in the last century, in 1959, when 7,321 newborn girls were named Valerie. But as our statistics show, Valerie has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1886, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Valerie is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Valerie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 1,974 newborns were given the name Valerie, making them rank #140. Although the name Valerie was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Valerie are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Valerie is one of them. However, Valerie is not equally widespread in all states, but people in New Mexico seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,700 women called Valerie who live here are 0,342% of all female residents and push their name up to #67, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in New Mexico.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Valerie has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Valerie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Valerie, you can simply say:
Violin
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Rocket
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Valerie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Valerie sounds like this:
