Ved
Ved was given to 188 boys in 2025, #1,131 among boys’ names; 1,954 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Ved and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ved by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ved?
#1,131 among boys’ names, 2025
Ved rose from #1,778 in 2015 to #1,131 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.04 to 0.11 per 1,000.
188 babies in 2025, the peak
Ved peaked in 2025, when 188 boys were given it, #1,131 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 149 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 188 | #1,131 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 149 | #1,313 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 144 | #1,326 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 124 | #1,466 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 125 | #1,451 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 117 | #1,470 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 96 | #1,675 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 91 | #1,721 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 114 | #1,487 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,603 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #1,778 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,226 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 70 | #1,986 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,482 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 55 | #2,340 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,209 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 47 | #2,658 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,511 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,470 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 40 | #2,874 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,083 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,624 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,266 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,688 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,292 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,888 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,525 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ved a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ved has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ved: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ved, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,954 Americans ever recorded as Ved. The median Ved alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,414 people named Ved (49 women and girls, 1,365 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 481 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,460 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ved born?
The states with the most babies named Ved are Texas, California and Washington, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 31 | #855 | 0.8× |
| California | 25 | #930 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 17 | #444 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #573 | 4.4× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #770 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #504 | 0.8× |
| New York | 9 | #1,285 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,013 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,208 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,088 | 0.6× |
Where Ved is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ved is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1999 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ved with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,383 babies since 1880, Ved is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 188 of their 227 babies (83%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ved
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ved and names like it
- Compare Ved and VedhBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sVed peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ved since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ved.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ved alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.