Vela
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 1905 · 16 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,082since 1888
Vela over time
Rank among girls' names. Vela has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 |
| 2021 | #4,833 | 27 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 |
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| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
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| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,325 | 12 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 |
| 1939 | #2,922 | 9 |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 |
| 1935 | #3,156 | 8 |
| 1934 | #2,187 | 14 |
| 1933 | #2,404 | 12 |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 |
| 1931 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1930 | #2,202 | 15 |
| 1929 | #3,137 | 9 |
| 1928 | #2,023 | 18 |
| 1927 | #2,026 | 19 |
| 1926 | #2,351 | 15 |
| 1925 | #2,119 | 18 |
| 1924 | #1,926 | 21 |
| 1923 | #1,672 | 25 |
| 1922 | #2,109 | 18 |
| 1921 | #2,378 | 15 |
| 1920 | #1,816 | 22 |
| 1919 | #1,527 | 27 |
| 1918 | #1,805 | 21 |
| 1917 | #1,996 | 17 |
| 1916 | #1,739 | 20 |
| 1915 | #1,094 | 38 |
| 1914 | #1,228 | 25 |
| 1913 | #1,465 | 16 |
| 1912 | #1,421 | 15 |
| 1911 | #1,300 | 13 |
| 1910 | #1,267 | 13 |
| 1909 | #1,104 | 14 |
| 1908 | #1,135 | 13 |
| 1907 | #1,142 | 12 |
| 1906 | #1,553 | 7 |
| 1905 | #926 | 16 |
| 1904 | #1,092 | 11 |
| 1903 | #1,318 | 8 |
| 1902 | #1,320 | 8 |
| 1901 | #1,227 | 8 |
| 1900 | #1,171 | 11 |
| 1899 | #1,596 | 5 |
| 1898 | #1,098 | 10 |
| 1897 | #1,167 | 8 |
| 1896 | #1,583 | 5 |
| 1895 | #1,592 | 5 |
| 1894 | #1,485 | 5 |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | #1,338 | 5 |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,136 | 6 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Vela! It came in at #1,136, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1896, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Vela is popular in 1915
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#423 · 1 in 3,931
- Texas#587 · 1 in 4,791
Best ever in a state: #289 in Kentucky, 1910.
Show every state
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| Kentucky | #423 | 6 | 1 in 3,931 |
| Texas | #587 | 9 | 1 in 4,791 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Vela
- 747 spots since 2024 (#5,799 → #6,546)
- 2,407 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #6,546)
- 713 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #6,546)
- Biggest jump: 166 spots in 1905 (#1,092 → #926)
- Biggest drop: 627 spots in 1906 (#926 → #1,553)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1905 at #926 (16 births)
- Births halved by 1906, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1905
- Highest: 1 in 18,226 girls born in 1905 were named Vela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 18.9% of all girls named Vela (205) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #1,136 (1888) | #1,136 |
| 1890s | 48 | #1,098 (1898) | #1,412 |
| 1900s | 108 | #926 (1905) | #1,199 |
| 1910s | 205 | #1,094 (1915) | #1,484 |
| 1920s | 180 | #1,672 (1923) | #2,156 |
| 1930s | 104 | #2,187 (1934) | #2,792 |
| 1940s | 53 | #3,444 (1942) | #4,035 |
| 1950s | 40 | #3,325 (1954) | #4,459 |
| 1960s | 32 | #5,008 (1964) | #5,742 |
| 1970s | 5 | #7,995 (1970) | #7,995 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #14,122 (1998) | #14,122 |
| 2000s | 12 | #13,924 (2007) | #15,609 |
| 2010s | 165 | #5,445 (2016) | #7,459 |
| 2020s | 119 | #4,833 (2021) | #6,306 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Vela in 1915
Top girls' names in 1915
More about 1915
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983,852 girls got a published name in 1915; 1 in 25,891 of them was named Vela, which outranked 78.0% of the 4,967 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,075Rosabelle39
- #1,075Shizue39
- #1,075Yoshiko39
- #1,094Vela38
- #1,094Abigail38
- #1,094Aleen38
- #1,094Arthur38
- #1,115Aleta37
- #1,115Almira37
- #1,115Alvena37
Tied with 20 names at #1,094; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.