Vale

Vale was the #5,608 boys' name in the US in 2025 (16 babies).

Vale as a boy’s name

  • US
Vale as a boy’s name, USBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.000.010.010.0118801900192019401960198020002020US
Vale as a boy’s name, USBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.000.010.010.011880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUS
2025#5,608 (16)
2024#7,765 (10)
2023#8,255 (9)
2022#7,262 (11)
2021#7,587 (10)
2020#5,980 (14)
2019#7,173 (11)
2018#8,819 (8)
2017#8,840 (8)
2016#10,744 (6)
2015#7,066 (11)
2014#8,130 (9)
2012#12,274 (5)
2011#8,767 (8)
1998#9,631 (5)

Vale as a girl’s name

  • US
  • Canada
Vale as a girl’s name, US, CanadaBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, Canada. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.010.030.040.0518801900192019401960198020002020US
Vale as a girl’s name, US, CanadaBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, Canada. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.010.030.040.051880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUSCanada
2025#7,885 (13)—
2024#6,642 (17)—
2023#8,486 (12)—
2022#4,907 (27)—
2021#6,174 (19)—
2020#4,169 (33)—
2019#4,260 (33)#3,266 (5)
2018#4,357 (32)—
2017#4,304 (33)—
2016#3,280 (49)—
2015#3,533 (44)—
2014#8,966 (12)—
1961#6,567 (5)—
1950#4,738 (6)—
1917#4,594 (5)—

The tide so far

  • Peaked in the US in 2025 at #5,608.
  • Holding steady over the last five years.
  • First recorded in the US in 1917.
  • In 2025, 45% of US babies named Vale were girls.

How common is it?

about 1 in 110,000 baby boys in the published US list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.

How common, country by country

WhereSexLatest yearShareVerdict
USBoys2025about 1 in 110,000rare
USGirls2025about 1 in 130,000rare

Next year

On its recent trend, Vale is likely to keep falling in the US in 2026: about 1 in 120,000 baby boys. Likely range 1 in 84,000 to 1 in 190,000.

Estimate, not an official figure. How we estimate.

Spellings

Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.

SpellingWhereSexLatest rankBabies
ValeCanadaGirls—too few
ValeUSGirls#7,88513
ValeUSBoys#5,60816