Vena
Vena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 501st, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191974 births
- Best rank
- #501in 1898
- Since 1880
- 2,804people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,804 girls have been named Vena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 74 births.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 74 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Vena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 128 | |
| 1890s | 252 | |
| 1900s | 286 | |
| 1910s | 462 | |
| 1920s | 523 | |
| 1930s | 259 | |
| 1940s | 177 | |
| 1950s | 180 | |
| 1960s | 213 | |
| 1970s | 141 | |
| 1980s | 78 | |
| 1990s | 29 | |
| 2000s | 16 | |
| 2010s | 43 | |
| 2020s | 17 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Vena was the 822nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Vena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lelapeak 1921
- Alphapeak 1916
- Floridapeak 1925
- Hesterpeak 1918
- Ivapeak 1918
- Maepeak 1918
- Alvinapeak 1917
- Artiepeak 1916
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.