Valene
Feminine · “To be strong”
Valene is a short name from a large Latin family, and it had one stretch of real visibility — a decade in which a character carrying it appeared in American living rooms every week.
How old is the name Valene?
Valene first appears in US birth records in 1910 — 115 years ago. The typical Valene alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 700 people named Valene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Valene most popular?
Valene peaked in 1983, reaching #1700 nationally. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Valeria to Valene
The story of Valene
The name's American life is almost entirely a television one: a primetime serial that ran for more than a decade gave one of its central characters this name, and the name's peak in the record matches the show's. What the wider family carries is older and stranger. Valentine, from the same root, was attached to at least two and possibly three different saints whose stories had been thoroughly confused with each other by the Middle Ages — so thoroughly that when the church revised its calendar in the last century it removed the feast from the general list, on the grounds that nothing reliable was known about the man. The greeting cards went on regardless.
Meaning
To be strong, to be well
The Latin verb valere, behind Valerie, Valentine and the word valid, means to be strong or in good health. This form is a short one built on the same root, with a French-style ending that English pronounces its own way.
How the name formed
- Valeria
- Valene
Related forms: Valène · Valeria
Pronouncing Valene
vuh-LEEN
Two syllables with the stress at the back. VAL-een, with the weight at the front, is also heard.
Nicknames for Valene
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1910
- Most girls named
- 198364 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1700reached in 1983
- Change vs 2008
- 0.0%5 in 2015, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Valene in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Valène in French — same name
- Valeria in Italian — related form
Valenes among us
people named Valene are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Valene sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, positive and shared with words English uses daily.
- The back stress gives it a strong finish for a short name.
- It is rare while sounding entirely familiar.
- Valerie and Valene are close enough that hers will be lengthened by people working from sound.
- For a certain generation the name belongs to a television character.
- Two pronunciations are in use and she will be asked which.
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Frequently asked
- How many Valenes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Valene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Valene in 2025?
- Valene is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Valene with classmates?
- Valene will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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