Valery

“Variant of Valerius — strong, healthy (Latin valere)” — Latin (via Valerius) origin

Girl's name · #744 in the US (2025) · Trending

Valery is climbing: on the charts since 1920, it is ranked #744 in 2025, with about 370 girls given the name last year. Roughly 8,800 have carried it all-time. Valery is the less common spelling of Valerie — about 14% of babies given the name are written this way; Valerie itself ranked #127 in 2025.

Around the world: about 1 in 18,000 girls in Canada (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 23 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Valerys

Valery Ortiz — Puerto Rican actress
Valery Kaufman — Russian model
Valery Troitskaya — Russian geophysicist (1917–2010)
Valery Vigilucci — Italian association football player
Valery Giroux — Canadian philosopher (born 1974)

What Valerys become

Among 1,226 notable people named Valery:

Scientists & scholars appear 1.43× more often than among typical names — e.g. Valery Giroux, Canadian philosopher (born 1974).

Similar names: Valerie · Iliana · Valencia · Ellery · Jovie · Capri

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