Valeria
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About Valeria
Valeria -- the original form of the name, used by early Christians --has been experiencing significant popularity in recent years. While Valeria was nearly always on the charts, the name peaked in 2009 at #72, surpassing the longtime Franco-American version Valerie. Today Valeria and Valerie are at about equal rankings, sitting in the 150s.
Pronounced vuh-LAIR-ee-uh.
As of October 2026, Valeria ranked #162 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #72 in 2009, Nameberry popularity #517.
Editor's take: The name Valeria is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "strength, health".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #175 | 1,892 | 1,059.1 |
| 2015 | #162 | 1,977 | 1,107.5 |
| 2016 | #152 | 2,038 | 1,150.1 |
| 2017 | #156 | 1,890 | 1,094.7 |
| 2018 | #141 | 1,989 | 1,169.3 |
| 2019 | #142 | 1,989 | 1,185.1 |
| 2020 | #150 | 1,816 | 1,123.4 |
| 2021 | #158 | 1,814 | 1,105.5 |
| 2022 | #146 | 1,997 | 1,217.6 |
| 2023 | #154 | 1,866 | 1,162.9 |
| 2024 | #161 | 1,865 | 1,151.1 |
| 2025 | #162 | 1,835 | 1,141.7 |
World rankings
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Valeria on lists
Famous Valerias
- Valeria (Andrews)
Australian pop singer
- Valeria Golino
Italian actress
- Valeria Borisovna Larina
Russian painter
- Valeria Levitin
Monacan known as the "world's thinnest woman'
- Valeria Valeryevna Lukyanova
Moldovan,Ukrainian model known as the Human Barbie
- Valeria Raquel Mazza
Argentinian model
- Valeria Savinykh
Russian tennis player
- Valeria Silva
Peruvian Olympic swimmer
- Valeria Mihailovna Sorokina
Russian badminton player
- Valeria Bilello
Italian actress and model
- Valeria Iniesta (b. 2011)
daughter of footballer Andres Iniesta
- Valeria Villarreal
daughter of baseball player Óscar Villareal
- Valeria Lipovetsky
model and online personality
Valeria in pop culture
- Valeria
Humbert Humbert's first wife in "Lolita" (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
- Valeria Richards
daughter of Reed Richards and Susan Storm in the Fantastic Four series
- Valeria Gutierrez
character in the argentinean TV series "Casi Angeles"
- Duchess Valeria
character in the Netflix miniseries Dracula (2020)