Velia

Where Velia comes from

Velia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1904
    First appearance
    #1,659 among girls, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.