Valentine

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Valentine: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Valentine: Recorded since 1964, its highest recorded position is #119, and it stood at #655 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
77times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#119highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2411
1998	#3142
1999	#3900
2001	#2783
2003	#4373
2004	#4598
2005	#4798
2006	#4157
2007	#2410
2008	#5545
2009	#3031
2010	#3533
2012	#2717
2013	#2649
2014	#3514
2015	#2328
2016	#4096
2017	#2706
2018	#5666
2019	#3541
2020	#3899
2021	#4634
2022	#2673
2023	#3218
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 27 of the 61 years from 1964 to 2024.

In 2024: #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1859 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #139 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1964–2024
Highest recorded position: #119 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1965 (recorded 1964–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Valentine appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 216 births with the name.

Valentine across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Valentine's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#139 (1964)	#119 (1965)	#655 (2024)	27 of 61	216 (1964–2024)	18 (1965)
England and Wales · Girls	#2411 (1997)	#2328 (2015)	#4192 (2024)	25 of 28	144 (1997–2024)	11 (2015)
England and Wales · Boys	#2419 (1998)	#1189 (2019)	#1859 (2024)	25 of 27	256 (1998–2024)	22 (2019)

Valentine by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Valentine in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960sbusiest	74	6 of 10	12
1970s	91	10 of 10	9
1980s	36	7 of 10	5
1990s	11	3 of 10	4
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Valentine appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #119 in Republic of Ireland in 1965.

Valentine's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1859	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1701	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1366	19	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1516	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1825	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1189	22	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2259	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1923	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1721	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1852	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2097	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#295	5	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#337	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#235	6	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#256	5	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#250	5	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#318	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#237	6	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#248	6	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#260	5	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#326	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#227	8	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#241	6	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#216	9	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#208	10	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#200	11	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#194	11	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#168	15	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#163	15	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#196	9	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#167	11	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#169	10	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#144	13	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#119	18	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#139	13	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1964 and 2024, ranked in 53 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #119, first reached in 1965.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 22 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 33 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Valentin · #352, 51y
Valentina · #85, 77y
Valentino · #628, 27y
Valeria · #313, 46y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Thi · #116, 56y
Augustine · #124, 53y
Colman · #125, 48y
Dominick · #111, 57y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Eithne · #119, 47y
Jerome · #119, 61y
Paschal · #119, 20y
Ita · #118, 41y

Valentine was ranked #119 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1965. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Valentine and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Valentine without appearing here.

Valentine moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1701 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1859 and #5119.
Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4798 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2717 and #5876.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2707 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1804 and #4810.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2673 and #5669.

Moved ahead of Valentine

Amalie Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2783 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #965.
Arlo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2706 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2340.
Noah Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2706 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2499.
Linnea Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2706 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #3178.

Moved the opposite way to Valentine

Alexander Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Valentine went from #139 to #655 while Alexander went from #116 to #44.
Arthur Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Valentine went from #139 to #655 while Arthur went from #98 to #47.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Valentine went from #139 to #655 while Benjamin went from #139 to #74.
Conor Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Valentine went from #139 to #655 while Conor went from #56 to #19.

Moved the same way as Valentine

Adrian Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Valentine went from #139 to #655 and Adrian from #65 to #200.
Alan Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Valentine went from #139 to #655 and Alan from #29 to #240.
Alfred Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Valentine went from #139 to #655 and Alfred from #134 to #430.
Andrew Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Valentine went from #139 to #655 and Andrew from #34 to #106.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #119 in Republic of Ireland in 1965. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Valentine

Valentine at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Valentine across 3 official records

Valentine by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Valentine appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Valentine

Valentine and the names beside it

Valentine moved ahead of

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Valentine at a glance

Valentine across 3 official records

Valentine by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Valentine appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Valentine

Valentine and the names beside it

Valentine moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Valentine

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