Velia

Where Velia comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Velia.

  • Vowel-ended
Velia through the years
  1. 1904
    First appearance
    #1,659 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1920
    Velia Martínez born
    American actress
  3. 1929
    Peak, #835
    72 babies named Velia, the most in any year.
  4. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,264.
  5. 1982
    Velia Vidal born
    Colombian writer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Velia Vidal · Colombian writer, born 1982
  • Velia Martínez · American actress, 1920–1993
  • Velia Eguiluz Soto · Mexican beach volleyball player, born 1965
  • Velia Aguilar Armendáriz · Mexican politician, born 1960
  • Velia Titta · Italian poet and writer, 1890–1938

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.