The Valley surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,497 people carried this name — #7,402 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 65,800 people counted. That is up 3% from 4,360 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Valley surname
A surname from landforms.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Valley» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 153 people named Valley.
1 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Haute-Saône.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
64 people named Valley live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Jura.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Valley in American newspapers,
1899–1901.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 4,776,844 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Valley,
with a public archive behind them.
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Maria Anna Ludomilla Euphrosina von und zu Arco auf Valley 1841–1923 -
Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley 1897–1945 · military officer -
Ulrika Magdalena Valley 1789–1871
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Maximilian Maria Graf von Arco auf Valley 1849–1911
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Jonas Joseph Lavalley 1858–1930 · painter
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Dylan Valley 1901– · filmmaker
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Valley.
- Vallejo 19,117 · U.S. census
- Vallerand 134 · U.S. census
- Vallery 1,515 · U.S. census
- Valles 13,777 · U.S. census
- Vallet 310 · U.S. census
- Vallette 334 · U.S. census
- Vallez 707 · U.S. census
- Valli 727 · U.S. census
- Vallier 1,285 · U.S. census
- Valliere 1,953 · U.S. census
- Vallin 1,210 · U.S. census
- Vallon 341 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Valley is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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