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Vaela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,898 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Vaela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,898 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Vaela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,898 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 38 (2025).
In 2025, 38 US girls were named Vaela, making it the 3,898th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,025 places from #7,923 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 14 girls named Vaela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,898, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 38. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vaela in 6 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2019 with 5 babies. In all, 86 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 81 babies named Vaela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 86 US girls were named Vaela; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,297 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).