Vel — unisex name

What the Data Says About Vel

The Social Security Administration has registered 13 babies named Vel between 1958 and 1962, spanning 5 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1962. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Vel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vel performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 7 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Vel shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 13 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.