Meaning not yet researched.
Velma: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #88 in 1912.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #88 in 1912; #5,903 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Velma in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,903 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1912, at #88.
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Velma: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #88 in 1912 · most girls in one year: 2,606 (1921).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Velma, making it the 5,903rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,504 places from #8,407 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 13 girls named Velma in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #88, reached in 1912. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,606, in 1921. For comparison, it was #16,293 in 2015 and #267 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Velma in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 16 babies with the name. In all, 87,202 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 23,020 babies named Velma.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 161 US girls were named Velma; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Vilma (4,989 babies since 1880).
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Velma in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,903 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,407 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,737 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,298 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,613 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,546 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,107 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,992 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,653 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,238 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,293 | — | — |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,940 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,904 | — | — |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,377 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,170 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,219 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,410 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,375 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,401 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,376 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,438 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,230 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,648 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,805 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,984 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,518 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,205 | — | — |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,353 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,316 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,562 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #7,026 | — | — |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,238 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,993 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,301 | — | — |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,931 | — | — |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,356 | — | — |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,327 | — | — |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1980 | 78 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1978 | 83 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1977 | 76 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1976 | 95 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1975 | 93 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1974 | 110 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1973 | 131 | #933 | — | — |
| 1972 | 120 | #995 | — | — |
| 1971 | 167 | #832 | — | — |
| 1970 | 181 | #783 | — | — |
| 1969 | 191 | #732 | — | — |
| 1968 | 222 | #652 | — | — |
| 1967 | 273 | #578 | — | — |
| 1966 | 299 | #546 | — | — |
| 1965 | 362 | #500 | — | — |
| 1964 | 395 | #488 | — | — |
| 1963 | 407 | #478 | — | — |
| 1962 | 464 | #446 | — | — |
| 1961 | 524 | #428 | — | — |
| 1960 | 559 | #407 | — | — |
| 1959 | 550 | #400 | — | — |
| 1958 | 502 | #417 | — | — |
| 1957 | 668 | #352 | — | — |
| 1956 | 692 | #333 | — | — |
| 1955 | 634 | #338 | 10 | #2,750 |
| 1954 | 749 | #309 | 5 | #4,334 |
| 1953 | 737 | #304 | — | — |
| 1952 | 706 | #300 | — | — |
| 1951 | 798 | #277 | — | — |
| 1950 | 825 | #267 | — | — |
| 1949 | 798 | #272 | 6 | #3,670 |
| 1948 | 871 | #254 | — | — |
| 1947 | 848 | #260 | — | — |
| 1946 | 875 | #242 | 6 | #3,506 |
| 1945 | 861 | #223 | 7 | #2,982 |
| 1944 | 935 | #211 | 11 | #2,303 |
| 1943 | 1,046 | #201 | — | — |
| 1942 | 1,052 | #196 | — | — |
| 1941 | 1,000 | #188 | — | — |
| 1940 | 986 | #188 | 8 | #2,854 |
| 1939 | 1,068 | #178 | 5 | #3,940 |
| 1938 | 1,160 | #174 | 10 | #2,473 |
| 1937 | 1,218 | #164 | 5 | #3,986 |
| 1936 | 1,180 | #167 | 11 | #2,293 |
| 1935 | 1,352 | #147 | 13 | #2,123 |
| 1934 | 1,426 | #144 | 9 | #2,733 |
| 1933 | 1,481 | #137 | 8 | #2,990 |
| 1932 | 1,689 | #133 | 23 | #1,504 |
| 1931 | 1,758 | #131 | 10 | #2,641 |
| 1930 | 1,918 | #127 | 15 | #2,071 |
| 1929 | 1,930 | #128 | 14 | #2,193 |
| 1928 | 2,290 | #114 | 13 | #2,381 |
| 1927 | 2,285 | #118 | 11 | #2,693 |
| 1926 | 2,120 | #124 | 18 | #1,907 |
| 1925 | 2,177 | #128 | 22 | #1,676 |
| 1924 | 2,272 | #123 | 20 | #1,835 |
| 1923 | 2,337 | #116 | 12 | #2,606 |
| 1922 | 2,367 | #113 | 10 | #2,999 |
| 1921 | 2,606 | #108 | 7 | #3,848 |
| 1920 | 2,491 | #105 | 18 | #1,959 |
| 1919 | 2,341 | #104 | 22 | #1,620 |
| 1918 | 2,439 | #103 | 13 | #2,387 |
| 1917 | 2,411 | #99 | 11 | #2,550 |
| 1916 | 2,319 | #99 | 11 | #2,530 |
| 1915 | 2,287 | #94 | 12 | #2,300 |
| 1914 | 1,795 | #92 | 8 | #2,637 |
| 1913 | 1,556 | #89 | 14 | #1,494 |
| 1912 | 1,403 | #88 | 5 | #2,884 |
| 1911 | 1,045 | #90 | 8 | #1,376 |
| 1910 | 1,035 | #90 | 8 | #1,304 |
| 1909 | 857 | #92 | 8 | #1,148 |
| 1908 | 860 | #90 | 6 | #1,363 |
| 1907 | 854 | #90 | 6 | #1,334 |
| 1906 | 721 | #94 | — | — |
| 1905 | 722 | #95 | — | — |
| 1904 | 615 | #101 | 6 | #1,192 |
| 1903 | 589 | #99 | — | — |
| 1902 | 526 | #113 | — | — |
| 1901 | 388 | #130 | 5 | #1,200 |
| 1900 | 426 | #141 | — | — |
| 1899 | 334 | #139 | — | — |
| 1898 | 331 | #152 | — | — |
| 1897 | 280 | #160 | — | — |
| 1896 | 249 | #174 | — | — |
| 1895 | 208 | #189 | — | — |
| 1894 | 196 | #190 | — | — |
| 1893 | 156 | #202 | — | — |
| 1892 | 146 | #212 | — | — |
| 1891 | 103 | #236 | — | — |
| 1890 | 96 | #257 | — | — |
| 1889 | 72 | #281 | — | — |
| 1888 | 67 | #287 | — | — |
| 1887 | 59 | #277 | — | — |
| 1886 | 33 | #377 | — | — |
| 1885 | 32 | #364 | — | — |
| 1884 | 18 | #500 | — | — |
| 1883 | 25 | #372 | — | — |
| 1882 | 17 | #456 | — | — |
| 1881 | 19 | #392 | — | — |
| 1880 | 16 | #434 | — | — |
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).