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Val: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“strong; healthy”
Origin
Latin
Say it
VAL · 1 syllable
Used for
Both (24% girls, 76% boys since 1880)

Short form of names such as Valentine, Valentina, Valerie, or Valentinus-derived forms, from Latin valens meaning 'strong, healthy'. It is used for any gender.

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How popular is Val?

20246.9 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Val in 202423

Peak year1956

Total US babies since 18807,383

Val is rising: use over the last five years is 2.7× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Val

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

Val questions

What does the name Val mean?

Val means "strong; healthy". It comes from Latin. Short form of names such as Valentine, Valentina, Valerie, or Valentinus-derived forms, from Latin valens meaning 'strong, healthy'. It is used for any gender.

Is Val a boy or girl name?

Val is used for both: about 24% of US babies named Val since 1880 were girls.

How popular is Val?

23 US babies were named Val in 2024. Its peak year was 1956.

How do you pronounce Val?

Val is usually pronounced VAL.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.