Vela
Vela is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 964th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 210.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191538 births
- Best rank
- #964in 1905
- Since 1888
- 1,065people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,065 girls have been named Vela in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 38 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1910s alone account for 19%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Vela | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 48 | |
| 1900s | 108 | |
| 1910s | 205 | |
| 1920s | 180 | |
| 1930s | 104 | |
| 1940s | 53 | |
| 1950s | 40 | |
| 1960s | 32 | |
| 1970s | 5 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 12 | |
| 2010s | 165 | |
| 2020s | 102 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Vela was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Vela
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eviapeak 1919
- Faepeak 1916
- Hildegardpeak 1915
- Gladyspeak 1920
- Maebellepeak 1917
- Verapeak 1918
- Oziepeak 1922
- Flonniepeak 1914
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.