Girls' name · since 2019
Vaela
Vaela has 86 recorded births since 2019 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #28,892 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #3,901 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 86
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
86 babies have been named Vaela since 2019, making it today's #3901 girls' name.
Vaela has 86 recorded births among girls since 2019, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #3901 as of the latest data, more common than 77% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2019 to 2025.
- #28,892 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #3,901 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 86 born since 2019
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Vaela ranks #28,892 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #3,901 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 86 born since 2019, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,892 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #3,901 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 86
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
Vaela's 86 recorded births place it above 60.04% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Vaela compares
86 22nd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Vaela's all-time total is 77% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Vaela | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 86 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 38 | 21 | 19,840 |
Vaela's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Vaela splits its recorded history at 2023: 71% of all births land in the more recent half, 29% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2019 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 38 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Vaela popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 38
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
Vaela by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (81 births, 94% of the file).
2020s was Vaela's strongest decade.
81 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 94% of all-time use.
Vaela births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
81 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 81 births (94% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2019–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Vaela draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.