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Baby name
Valerie
Girl
Origin of the name
Valerie comes from the Latin Valeria, the feminine of Valerius, the name of a great Roman family. It is related to the verb valere, “to be strong, to be worth.”
Classic name
273,229births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 60rank at its peak, in 1959
Where babies named Valerie are born
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Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Valerie is most common in New Mexico (1.9 times), Hawaii (1.7) and California (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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