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Vali

girl name
Origin
German
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady

Meaning

“A German pet form of Valentina, from Latin valens, strong; famously borne by Vali Holl, the Austrian downhill mountain bike racer.”

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Popularity, 1890–2024

1890srare in US records2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Vali has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

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Popularity in Brazil

509 people · the #13,197 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 333,333 · median age 70

1930s1940s1950s1960s1970s

Among people named Vali living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1940s than in any other decade.

Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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The Vali deep dive

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Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Vali truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Vali fits with your family’s names and surname.

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