Valyn

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 16 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
16
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Valyn by the numbers

Valyn was given to 16 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 13 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Valyn

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Valyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Valinstrong; powerful6 in the US (2017)
  • Vallonsmall valley; diminutive of val6 in the US (2017)
  • Vallen12 in the US (2017)
  • Vaden9 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Valyn

Names that are said the same way as Valyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Fallondescended from the ruler238 in the US (2017)
  • Fallyndescended from the ruler; a modern respelling of Fallon with -yn suffix62 in the US (2017)
  • Valen88 in the US (2017)
  • Falyn34 in the US (2017)
  • Falynn30 in the US (2017)
  • Falon18 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Valyn

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