Given name
Valeriy
“one who is strong and healthy”
Valeriy is a variant of Valerian. One Latin interpretation is “one who is strong and healthy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Valeriy is a variant of Valerian. One Latin interpretation is “one who is strong and healthy.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Valeriy is a variant of Valerian. An origin associated with Valerian is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Valeriy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,062 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Valeriy’s family of names
Valeriy has a related form in Valerian.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Valeriy
- Valerii ZaluzhnyiUkrainian military officer (born 1973)
- Valeriy LobanovskyiUkrainian football manager (1939–2002)
- Valeriy BorzovUkrainian sprinterborn 1949
- Valeriy ShevchukUkrainian writer (1939-2025)
- Valeriy PorkujanSoviet footballerborn 1944
- Valeriy PustovoitenkoUkrainian politicianborn 1947
- Valeriy HeleteyUkrainian Colonel General; former Minister of Defenseborn 1967
- Valeriy ChybineyevUkrainian military sniper (1988-2022)
- Valeriy AndriytsevUkrainian sport wrestlerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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