Valeri
Feminine · “Latin valere”
The Romans said goodbye by telling each other to be strong. Vale is the imperative of valere, to be well or to have strength, and the same verb gives value, valid, valor, prevail, invalid and convalesce. Valerie is built on it.
How old is the name Valeri?
Valeri first appears in US birth records in 1948 — 77 years ago. The typical Valeri alive today was born around 1976, making them about 49 years old. About 1,800 people named Valeri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Valeri most popular?
Valeri peaked in 1959, reaching #1478 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 7,979 places below that high. See the whole 1959 chart.
Where it comes from
From valere to Valeri
The story of Valeri
Valere is one of the busiest verbs in Latin and English borrowed nearly all of its descendants. Value is what something is worth. Valid is what holds good. Valour is strength of a particular kind. To prevail is to be stronger than. An invalid is someone who is not strong, and the same spelling read differently means an argument that does not hold. To convalesce is to grow strong again. Valedictorian says farewell, from vale dicere, to say be well. The farewell itself is the striking part: where English says goodbye, a contraction of God be with you, and French says adieu, to God, Latin said vale, be strong, and ave, which is closer to be well. A civilization's parting words are a small piece of evidence about what it thought mattered.
Meaning
Latin valere, to be strong or well
Valeri is a spelling of Valerie, from the Roman family name Valerius, built on valere, to be strong, healthy or of worth. The gens Valeria was one of the oldest patrician families of Rome. The -i ending is an American respelling of the traditional -ie. The peak of this spelling is 1959.
How the name formed
- valere
- Valerius
- Valerie
- Valeri
Related forms: Valerie · Valeriya · Valerie
Pronouncing Valeri
VAL-uh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first. Valeri and Valerie are homophones in English. Russian Valeri, a man's name, is stressed on the last syllable.
Nicknames for Valeri
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
- 1948
- Most girls named
- 196455 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1478reached in 1959
- Change vs 2023
- −50.0%10 in 2025, from 20
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.
Valeri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Valerie in English — spelling variant
- Valeriya in Russian — same name
- Valerie in French — same name
Valeris among us
people named Valeri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Valeri
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Valeri
- #9457
- Valeri on the 2025 chart
- #603
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Valeri went to 10 girls in 2025, but Valery and Vallery are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 385, which makes it the 603rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,854 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 4,175 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Valeri itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sherlene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Valeri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sherlene climbed just as high around 1940, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sherlene's path sketches the road Valeri is walking now.
Valeri sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Valeri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Valeri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Val works as a short form and is widely used.
- The Latin root is clear and its descendants are everywhere in English.
- Three syllables with firm first-syllable stress.
- Valerie is much the commoner spelling.
- Valeri is a man's name in Russian.
- The 1959 peak places it in the mid-century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Valeris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Valeri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Valeri?
- Valeri is one of 3 recorded spellings. Valery is the more common one — 366 births in 2025 against 10 for Valeri.
- How popular is the name Valeri in 2025?
- Valeri ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Valeri?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Valeri — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Valeri with classmates?
- Valeri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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