Is Valery a male or female name?
Valery is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 99% and male usage in France at 88%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 57%
- Sample size
- 18,187
- Confidence
- high
Valery by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 99% | 8,555 | ssa |
| France FR | male | 88% | 5,480 | insee |
| Poland PL | male | 99% | 2,735 | pesel |
| Spain ES | female | 100% | 743 | ine |
| Canada CA | female | 100% | 340 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | male | 60% | 300 | bfs |
Attested in 47 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AM · AT · AU · AZ · BE · BF · BG · BI · BJ · BY · CA · CD · CF · CG · CH · CI · CM · DE · DJ · ES · FR · GA · GB · GN · HT · IN · KZ · LI · LU · MC · MD · MG · ML · MU · NE · PL · RU · RW · SC · SE · SN · TD · TG · UA · US · UZ · VU
Valery over time
In the United States, 96.1% of the babies named Valery in the 1940s were girls, against 99.7% in the 2020s. In France, 16.7% of the babies named Valery in the 1900s were girls, against 4.8% in the 1990s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | — | 17% | 300 | |
| 1910s | — | 13% | 225 | |
| 1920s | — | 15% | 195 | |
| 1940s | 96% | 127 | — | |
| 1950s | 93% | 420 | — | |
| 1960s | 99% | 440 | 18% | 1,810 |
| 1970s | 97% | 286 | 7% | 2,120 |
| 1980s | 93% | 303 | 6% | 395 |
| 1990s | 100% | 616 | 5% | 105 |
| 2000s | 100% | 2,263 | — | |
| 2010s | 100% | 2,352 | — | |
| 2020s | 100% | 1,639 | — |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Valery with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Valery&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Valery
Is Valery a male or female name?
Valery is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 99% and male usage in France at 88%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Valery change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Valery identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.