Valery

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Валерий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 6 more, Valerii in FR France, PL Poland, Valeriu in RO Romania, MD Moldova and ולרי in IL Israel, LV Latvia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Valery is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name56K records spelled Valery10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Netherlands

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Valéry, Valèry, Válery, Välëry, Vâlêrÿ

• a separate given name4.1K records spelled Valery5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus

  Also written Valéry, VAlerý, Válery, Valèry

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name1.0K records spelled Valery2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Valéry

70 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Valery is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Variante de Valérie, du latin valere, « être fort, en bonne santé ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In French, Variante de Valéry/Valère, du latin Valerius, « fort, vigoureux ».

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 101 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Valery Yakovlevich Bryusovb. 1873RURussian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian (1873–1924)
• Valery Larbaudb. 1881FRFrench writer and poet (1881-1957)
• Valeriy Lobanovskyib. 1939UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian football manager (1939–2002)
• Valery Leontievb. 1949RURussian singer
• Valeriy Borzovb. 1949UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian sprinter
• Valery Gergievb. 1953RURussian conductor and opera company director
• Valery Gazzaevb. 1954RUSoviet footballer and manager
• Valery Gerasimovb. 1955RUChief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
• Valery Meladzeb. 1965RURussian singer
• Valerii Zaluzhnyib. 1973UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian military officer (born 1973)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 610 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Valery?

We estimate roughly 556 thousand people bear Valery (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Valery have the most bearers?

Valery is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled валерий.

How common is Valery compared with other names?

In Russia, Valery is the 38th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Valery a male or female name?

Valery is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.

What does the name Valery mean?

Recorded meaning: qui a écrit : « La main : organe du possible et de la certitude.