Meaning not yet researched.
Veer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 250 in 2025. Its best rank was #942 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 Veer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#942 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Veer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 250 boys in 2025. Peak: #942 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 250 (2025).
In 2025, 250 US boys were named Veer, making it the 942nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 139 places from #1,081 in 2024. That is 48 more than the 202 boys named Veer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #942, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 250. For comparison, it was #1,501 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Veer in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 10 babies. In all, 2,922 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,309 babies named Veer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,855 US boys were named Veer; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 250. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,832 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Veer ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #323 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Vir, Vere and Vear are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Vir (451), Vere (210), Vear (165).
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 Veer in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 27 | #323 | #434 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #379 | — |
| Washington | 13 | #573 | — |
| Illinois | 16 | #604 | #1,071 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #620 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #623 | #1,129 |
| California | 41 | #681 | #1,157 |
| New York | 19 | #763 | #1,472 |
| Maryland | 6 | #802 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #891 | #817 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #905 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,068 | #1,440 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,209 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,255 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 250 | #942 |
| 2024 | — | — | 202 | #1,081 |
| 2023 | — | — | 224 | #985 |
| 2022 | — | — | 216 | #1,029 |
| 2021 | — | — | 188 | #1,107 |
| 2020 | — | — | 172 | #1,140 |
| 2019 | — | — | 158 | #1,213 |
| 2018 | — | — | 156 | #1,206 |
| 2017 | — | — | 146 | #1,255 |
| 2016 | — | — | 143 | #1,277 |
| 2015 | — | — | 111 | #1,501 |
| 2014 | — | — | 110 | #1,484 |
| 2013 | — | — | 113 | #1,466 |
| 2012 | — | — | 138 | #1,279 |
| 2011 | — | — | 121 | #1,384 |
| 2010 | — | — | 113 | #1,460 |
| 2009 | — | — | 94 | #1,686 |
| 2008 | — | — | 59 | #2,261 |
| 2007 | — | — | 57 | #2,302 |
| 2006 | — | — | 44 | #2,695 |
| 2005 | — | — | 44 | #2,562 |
| 2004 | — | — | 22 | #4,124 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #9,529 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #6,066 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,487 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #10,295 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #6,076 |
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).