Veleda
Veleda was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 122 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Veleda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Veleda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,909, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1971, the peak
Veleda peaked in 1971, when 10 girls were given it, #5,526 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #11,909 | 3.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,587 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,144 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,724 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,937 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,526 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,046 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,253 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,453 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,343 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 5 | #6,174 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,988 | 2.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,903 | 4.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,431 | 7.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,036 | 4.7 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,689 | 5.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,717 | 4.1 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,268 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,106 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Veleda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Veleda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Veleda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Veleda, and how old are they?
An estimated 77 Americans named Veleda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 139 people named Veleda (139 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 7,681 babies since 1880, Veleda is the second most given (1.6% of them).
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.
More about Veleda and names like it
- Compare Veleda and VeldaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sVeleda peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Veleda.
- Names starting with VMost given first.