Vela

Where Vela comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Vela.

  • Vowel-ended
Vela through the years
  1. 1859
    Vela Blagoeva born
    Bulgarian writer and educator, editor
  2. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,136 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1905
    Peak, #926
    16 babies named Vela, its best rank.
  4. 1906
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,553.
  5. 1922
    Vela Peeva born
    Bulgarian heroine
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Vela Blagoeva · Bulgarian writer and educator, editor, 1859–1921
  • Vela Peeva · Bulgarian heroine, 1922–1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.