Meaning not yet researched.
Veda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 370 in 2025. Its best rank was #415 in 1899.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #415 in 1899; #739 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Veda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#739 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1899, at #415.
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Veda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 370 girls in 2025. Peak: #415 in 1899 · most girls in one year: 410 (2024).
In 2025, 370 US girls were named Veda, making it the 739th most common girls’ name of the year, down 46 places from #693 in 2024. That is 40 fewer than the 410 girls named Veda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #415, reached in 1899. The most girls given the name in a single year was 410, in 2024. For comparison, it was #939 in 2015 and #908 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Veda in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 6 babies. In all, 14,076 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,522 babies named Veda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,287 US girls were named Veda; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 410. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,344 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Veda ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #386 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Vida (12,473 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Veyda, Veida and Veeda are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Veyda (492), Veida (138), Veeda (60), Vedaa (12), Vieda (5), Vedah (5), Veada (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Veda in the open dataset we use.
Veda is listed as a nickname for Laveda.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 9 | #386 | #465 |
| New Jersey | 20 | #403 | #1,167 |
| Michigan | 21 | #422 | #583 |
| Washington | 15 | #476 | #1,102 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #567 | — |
| Minnesota | 9 | #593 | #322 |
| Illinois | 17 | #596 | #1,155 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #605 | #301 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #621 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #645 | #749 |
| Ohio | 15 | #666 | #653 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #681 | #597 |
| Indiana | 9 | #719 | #1,067 |
| Maryland | 7 | #723 | #1,039 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #772 | — |
| California | 40 | #776 | #1,245 |
| Georgia | 13 | #794 | #961 |
| Missouri | 7 | #807 | #738 |
| New York | 20 | #827 | #1,753 |
| Arizona | 7 | #900 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #910 | #874 |
| Texas | 32 | #914 | #1,183 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #976 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,031 | #1,389 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,430 | #903 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 370 | #739 | — | — |
| 2024 | 410 | #693 | — | — |
| 2023 | 342 | #816 | — | — |
| 2022 | 313 | #891 | — | — |
| 2021 | 313 | #872 | — | — |
| 2020 | 283 | #918 | — | — |
| 2019 | 316 | #850 | 5 | #14,002 |
| 2018 | 302 | #894 | — | — |
| 2017 | 319 | #859 | — | — |
| 2016 | 319 | #884 | — | — |
| 2015 | 289 | #939 | — | — |
| 2014 | 227 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 2013 | 211 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 2012 | 177 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 2011 | 202 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 2009 | 133 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,607 | — | — |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,959 | — | — |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,134 | — | — |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,707 | — | — |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,211 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,371 | — | — |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,219 | — | — |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,262 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,570 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,542 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,433 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,278 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,720 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,944 | — | — |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,315 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,945 | — | — |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,415 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,409 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,772 | — | — |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,754 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1973 | 41 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1969 | 54 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1967 | 74 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1966 | 78 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1965 | 73 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1964 | 102 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1963 | 108 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1962 | 101 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1961 | 116 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1960 | 128 | #945 | — | — |
| 1959 | 119 | #970 | — | — |
| 1958 | 122 | #936 | — | — |
| 1957 | 95 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1956 | 108 | #976 | — | — |
| 1955 | 79 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1954 | 128 | #833 | — | — |
| 1953 | 107 | #913 | — | — |
| 1952 | 96 | #963 | — | — |
| 1951 | 93 | #969 | — | — |
| 1950 | 97 | #908 | — | — |
| 1949 | 91 | #934 | — | — |
| 1948 | 137 | #724 | — | — |
| 1947 | 164 | #653 | — | — |
| 1946 | 200 | #563 | — | — |
| 1945 | 83 | #829 | — | — |
| 1944 | 65 | #970 | — | — |
| 1943 | 67 | #974 | — | — |
| 1942 | 82 | #852 | — | — |
| 1941 | 70 | #875 | — | — |
| 1940 | 80 | #794 | — | — |
| 1939 | 68 | #856 | — | — |
| 1938 | 89 | #730 | — | — |
| 1937 | 95 | #702 | — | — |
| 1936 | 99 | #665 | — | — |
| 1935 | 101 | #659 | — | — |
| 1934 | 118 | #611 | — | — |
| 1933 | 106 | #640 | — | — |
| 1932 | 97 | #691 | — | — |
| 1931 | 97 | #681 | — | — |
| 1930 | 126 | #617 | — | — |
| 1929 | 143 | #575 | — | — |
| 1928 | 137 | #603 | — | — |
| 1927 | 145 | #587 | — | — |
| 1926 | 166 | #546 | — | — |
| 1925 | 169 | #554 | — | — |
| 1924 | 167 | #564 | — | — |
| 1923 | 162 | #566 | — | — |
| 1922 | 166 | #554 | — | — |
| 1921 | 188 | #518 | — | — |
| 1920 | 193 | #498 | — | — |
| 1919 | 164 | #537 | — | — |
| 1918 | 167 | #545 | — | — |
| 1917 | 169 | #511 | — | — |
| 1916 | 171 | #493 | — | — |
| 1915 | 168 | #477 | — | — |
| 1914 | 118 | #517 | — | — |
| 1913 | 107 | #494 | — | — |
| 1912 | 101 | #477 | — | — |
| 1911 | 74 | #482 | — | — |
| 1910 | 65 | #511 | — | — |
| 1909 | 56 | #507 | — | — |
| 1908 | 60 | #467 | — | — |
| 1907 | 59 | #467 | — | — |
| 1906 | 51 | #484 | — | — |
| 1905 | 54 | #463 | — | — |
| 1904 | 40 | #527 | — | — |
| 1903 | 52 | #448 | — | — |
| 1902 | 52 | #433 | — | — |
| 1901 | 52 | #420 | — | — |
| 1900 | 52 | #474 | — | — |
| 1899 | 50 | #415 | — | — |
| 1898 | 46 | #459 | — | — |
| 1897 | 44 | #448 | — | — |
| 1896 | 37 | #485 | — | — |
| 1895 | 41 | #453 | — | — |
| 1894 | 31 | #525 | — | — |
| 1893 | 22 | #626 | — | — |
| 1892 | 23 | #589 | — | — |
| 1891 | 18 | #643 | — | — |
| 1890 | 27 | #506 | — | — |
| 1889 | 19 | #598 | — | — |
| 1888 | 26 | #501 | — | — |
| 1887 | 16 | #585 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #891 | — | — |
| 1885 | 17 | #540 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #787 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1881 | 6 | #822 | — | — |
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).