Velisa

Last seen for girls in 1984 at #9,144

Peak · girls
1967 · 23 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
153
since 1960

Velisa over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Velisa has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201966peak #2,558, 1967girls
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First appearance
1960

The first year at least five girls were named Velisa! It came in at #5,696, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Velisa is popular in 1966

No state had 5 or more girls named Velisa in 1966, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Velisa
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1984
Rise & fade · girls
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1960
  • Peaked 1967 at #2,558 (23 births)
  • Births halved by 1969, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 71,784
  • Highest: 1 in 71,784 girls born in 1967 were named Velisa (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 280,636 girls born in 1984 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 77.1% of all girls named Velisa (118) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s118#2,558 (1967)#4,235
1970s29#5,959 (1972)#6,504
1980s6#9,144 (1984)#9,144

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.

Velisa in 1966

girls
#3,148
16 births · 1 in 105,761 girls

Top girls' names in 1966

  1. #1Lisa56,918
  2. #2Kimberly32,232
  3. #3Mary28,890
  4. #4Michelle27,159
  5. #5Karen25,450
  6. #6Susan23,776
  7. #7Patricia20,112
  8. #8Tammy18,621
  9. #9Angela18,532
  10. #10Jennifer18,215
  11. #3,148Velisa16
More about 1966

girls

1,692,177 girls got a published name in 1966; 1 in 105,761 of them was named Velisa, which outranked 58.7% of the 7,624 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Velisa
  1. #3,040Wendelyn17
  2. #3,040Willetta17
  3. #3,040Yesenia17
  4. #3,148Velisa16
  5. #3,148Adell16
  6. #3,148Aleida16
  7. #3,148Alysa16
  8. #3,266Adair15
  9. #3,266Agena15
  10. #3,266Aisha15

Tied with 117 names at #3,148; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1965
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,121Tabatha#6,539 → #418
  2. ↑ 1,469Tabitha#1,993 → #524
  3. ↑ 1,325Joell#2,247 → #922
  4. ↑ 1,047Tatia#1,715 → #668
  5. ↑ 969Nichole#1,829 → #860
Fallers
  1. ↓ 398Barb#815 → #1,213
  2. ↓ 310Jewell#952 → #1,262
  3. ↓ 288Roxie#944 → #1,232
  4. ↓ 284Aretha#818 → #1,102
  5. ↓ 280Kecia#392 → #672

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1966 →