Meaning not yet researched.
Velvet: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #542 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #542 in 1961; #8,824 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Velvet in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,824 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #542.
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Velvet: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #542 in 1961 · most girls in one year: 332 (1961).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Velvet, making it the 8,824th most common girls’ name of the year, up 695 places from #9,519 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 11 girls named Velvet in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #542, reached in 1961. That year also had the most girls given the name: 332. For comparison, it was #16,294 in 2015 and #2,430 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Velvet in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 6 babies. In all, 3,101 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,257 babies named Velvet.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 112 US girls were named Velvet; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Velvette and Velvett 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Velvette (7), Velvett (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 Velvet 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 | 12 | #8,824 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,519 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,461 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,264 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,428 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,074 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,697 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,379 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,889 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,808 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,294 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,035 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,507 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,685 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,094 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,869 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,383 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,729 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,103 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,067 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,097 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,582 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,394 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,816 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,303 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,748 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,224 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,354 | — | — |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,620 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,275 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,674 | — | — |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,438 | — | — |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,822 | — | — |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,846 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,645 | — | — |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,519 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,844 | — | — |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,970 | — | — |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,153 | — | — |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 1975 | 71 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1974 | 71 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1972 | 93 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1971 | 85 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 1967 | 63 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1966 | 86 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1965 | 85 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1964 | 117 | #989 | — | — |
| 1963 | 143 | #881 | — | — |
| 1962 | 261 | #626 | — | — |
| 1961 | 332 | #542 | — | — |
| 1960 | 73 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,759 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,179 | — | — |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,298 | — | — |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,716 | — | — |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,089 | — | — |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,615 | — | — |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1945 | 36 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,972 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,934 | — | — |
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).