Veta
Veta was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 2,021 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Veta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Veta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,505, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1916, the peak
Veta peaked in 1916, when 58 girls were given it, #892 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #17,505 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,781 | 3.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,864 | 3.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,837 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,178 | 2.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,354 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,285 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,272 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,664 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,578 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 | #8,252 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,122 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,053 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,952 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,991 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #6,020 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,264 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,396 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,238 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,697 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,461 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,471 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,570 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,149 | 14.3 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,114 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,343 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,384 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,104 | 13.8 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,946 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,428 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,708 | 18.3 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,803 | 16.7 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,715 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,625 | 19.9 |
| 1948 | 24 | #2,004 | 14.1 |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,087 | 13.0 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,644 | 19.1 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,449 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,961 | 15.1 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,147 | 12.9 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,911 | 15.5 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,952 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,791 | 18.4 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,347 | 28.3 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,700 | 19.9 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,448 | 25.4 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,591 | 22.1 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,481 | 24.8 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,438 | 25.9 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,122 | 39.7 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,680 | 20.6 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,225 | 33.8 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,604 | 22.2 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,523 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,423 | 26.9 |
| 1927 | 50 | #1,087 | 41.9 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,444 | 27.0 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,295 | 31.2 |
| 1924 | 57 | #1,030 | 45.6 |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,229 | 34.0 |
| 1922 | 48 | #1,113 | 40.0 |
| 1921 | 49 | #1,091 | 39.7 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,347 | 29.2 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,214 | 34.5 |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,089 | 39.7 |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,182 | 35.1 |
| 1916 | 58 | #892 | 55.5 |
| 1915 | 50 | #943 | 50.8 |
| 1914 | 39 | #953 | 51.2 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,304 | 32.0 |
| 1912 | 27 | #1,001 | 48.4 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,168 | 38.2 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,626 | 25.2 |
| 1909 | 17 | #1,014 | 49.0 |
| 1908 | 25 | #788 | 74.8 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,285 | 34.5 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,152 | 40.6 |
| 1905 | 15 | #1,007 | 51.4 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,473 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,312 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 13 | #1,021 | 49.2 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,063 | 46.0 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,313 | 33.4 |
| 1899 | 15 | #875 | 64.4 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,096 | 42.5 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,787 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,120 | 42.0 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,423 | 30.0 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,132 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,168 | 37.6 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,271 | 33.0 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,329 | 32.3 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,093 | 42.0 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,270 | 33.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Veta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Veta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Veta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Veta, and how old are they?
An estimated 652 Americans named Veta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 63 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 985 people named Veta (981 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 794 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
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 Veta born?
The states with the most babies named Veta are Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 144 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Oklahoma | 83 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Missouri | 71 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Arkansas | 15 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kansas | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Veta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Veta is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 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 Veta 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,176 babies since 1880, Veta is the most given (93% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Veta
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 Veta and names like it
- Compare Veta and VettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVeta peaked in 1916.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Veta since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Veta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Veta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.