Gender-neutral · #1793 in 2025
Valentine
Valentine: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #1793
- Born 2025
- 89
- Peak year
- 1894
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 boys born
Recent trend
Valentine has been rising: its share of boys born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 24% of its 1894 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 45% of children named Valentine were recorded as girls and 55% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.