Meaning and history
Val is a short form of Valentine and Valerie, as well as other names beginning with Val.
20062006: 11 births, rank #6,904
2007: 8 births, rank #8,915
2008: 6 births, rank #11,037
2009: 9 births, rank #8,310
2010: 8 births, rank #8,803
20112011: 8 births, rank #8,767
2012: 7 births, rank #9,709
2013: no US SSA record for this spelling
2014: 10 births, rank #7,562
2015: 13 births, rank #6,324
20162016: 6 births, rank #10,744
2017: 12 births, rank #6,685
2018: 8 births, rank #8,819
2019: 10 births, rank #7,643
2020: 6 births, rank #10,605
20212021: 10 births, rank #7,587
2022: 16 births, rank #5,633
2023: 19 births, rank #5,075
2024: 17 births, rank #5,443
20252025: 22 births, rank #4,539
Val moved from #874 to #981 for boys between 1967 and 1969. Its highest annual birth count came in 1952, with 178 births.