Velvet

Where Velvet comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Velvet.

Velvet through the years
  1. 1920
    First appearance
    #4,398 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1945
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1961
    Peak, #541
    332 babies named Velvet, the most in any year.
  4. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #878.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Velvet in Wikidata.

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.