Veda
Veda was given to 370 girls in 2025, #739 among girls’ names; 14,076 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,570 Americans named Veda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Veda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Veda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Veda is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “knowledge” (वेद॑).
Borrowed from Sanskrit वेद॑ (véda, “knowledge”).
/ˈveɪdə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Veda?
#739 among girls’ names, 2025
Veda rose from #939 in 2015 to #739 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.16 to 0.23 per 1,000.
410 babies in 2024, the peak
Veda peaked in 2024, when 410 girls were given it, #693 among girls’ names. The 370 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 370 | #739 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 410 | #693 | 0.25 |
| 2023 | 342 | #816 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 313 | #891 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 313 | #872 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 283 | #918 | 0.18 |
| 2019 | 316 | #850 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 302 | #894 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 319 | #859 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 319 | #884 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (143)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 289 | #939 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 227 | #1,120 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 211 | #1,143 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 177 | #1,333 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 202 | #1,195 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,467 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 133 | #1,686 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,702 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,114 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,482 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,965 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,585 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,604 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,408 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,955 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,537 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,776 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,131 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,704 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,016 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,206 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,366 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,214 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,256 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,563 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,537 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,427 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,275 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,717 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,941 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,314 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,944 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,414 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,246 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,409 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,771 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,569 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,753 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,861 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,741 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,496 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 41 | #2,018 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,219 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,558 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,856 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 54 | #1,647 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,490 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 74 | #1,253 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 78 | #1,224 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 73 | #1,261 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 102 | #1,084 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 108 | #1,034 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 101 | #1,080 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 116 | #1,011 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 128 | #944 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 119 | #969 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 122 | #935 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 95 | #1,070 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 108 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 79 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 128 | #832 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 107 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 96 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 93 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 97 | #907 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 91 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 137 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 164 | #653 | 0.09 |
| 1946 | 200 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1945 | 83 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 65 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 67 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 82 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 70 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 80 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 68 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 89 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 95 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 99 | #665 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 101 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 118 | #611 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 106 | #640 | 0.11 |
| 1932 | 97 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 97 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 126 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1929 | 143 | #575 | 0.13 |
| 1928 | 137 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1927 | 145 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1926 | 166 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1925 | 169 | #554 | 0.14 |
| 1924 | 167 | #564 | 0.13 |
| 1923 | 162 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1922 | 166 | #554 | 0.14 |
| 1921 | 188 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1920 | 193 | #498 | 0.16 |
| 1919 | 164 | #537 | 0.15 |
| 1918 | 167 | #545 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 169 | #511 | 0.16 |
| 1916 | 171 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 168 | #477 | 0.17 |
| 1914 | 118 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1913 | 107 | #494 | 0.17 |
| 1912 | 101 | #477 | 0.18 |
| 1911 | 74 | #482 | 0.18 |
| 1910 | 65 | #511 | 0.16 |
| 1909 | 56 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1908 | 60 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1907 | 59 | #467 | 0.19 |
| 1906 | 51 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1905 | 54 | #463 | 0.19 |
| 1904 | 40 | #527 | 0.15 |
| 1903 | 52 | #448 | 0.20 |
| 1902 | 52 | #433 | 0.20 |
| 1901 | 52 | #420 | 0.22 |
| 1900 | 52 | #474 | 0.17 |
| 1899 | 50 | #415 | 0.21 |
| 1898 | 46 | #459 | 0.18 |
| 1897 | 44 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1896 | 37 | #485 | 0.16 |
| 1895 | 41 | #453 | 0.18 |
| 1894 | 31 | #525 | 0.14 |
| 1893 | 22 | #626 | 0.10 |
| 1892 | 23 | #589 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 18 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 27 | #506 | 0.14 |
| 1889 | 19 | #598 | 0.11 |
| 1888 | 26 | #501 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 16 | #585 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 8 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 17 | #540 | 0.13 |
| 1884 | 9 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 6 | #822 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Veda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Veda has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 143 years of records.
Girls and boys named Veda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Veda, and how old are they?
8,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 14,076 Americans ever recorded as Veda. The median Veda alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 7,001 people named Veda (6,935 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,206 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 449 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,680 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 653 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,000 |
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 Veda born?
The states with the most babies named Veda are California, Texas and Michigan, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 40 | #776 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 32 | #914 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 21 | #422 | 0.8× |
| New York | 20 | #827 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 20 | #403 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 17 | #596 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #645 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 15 | #666 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #681 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 15 | #476 | 0.6× |
Where Veda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Veda is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 girls’ 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 Veda 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 15,064 babies since 1880, Veda is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 370 of their 427 babies (87%), 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 Veda
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 Veda and names like it
- Compare Veda and VeydaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sVeda peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Veda since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Veda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Veda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.