Vella
Vella is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. Its best rank was 574th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191553 births
- Best rank
- #574in 1885
- Since 1882
- 2,255people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,255 girls have been named Vella in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 53 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Vella | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 66 | |
| 1890s | 124 | |
| 1900s | 185 | |
| 1910s | 393 | |
| 1920s | 410 | |
| 1930s | 304 | |
| 1940s | 198 | |
| 1950s | 154 | |
| 1960s | 68 | |
| 1970s | 11 | |
| 1980s | 7 | |
| 2000s | 34 | |
| 2010s | 188 | |
| 2020s | 113 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Vella was the 914th most given girl’s name 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 Vella
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elenorapeak 1917
- Pansypeak 1916
- Delphiapeak 1924
- Unapeak 1921
- Oleviapeak 1921
- Elmapeak 1918
- Elvapeak 1918
- Eulapeak 1919
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.