girls:
13.3k births since 1881
#1348 (76th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2019
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
13.3k births since 1881
#2276 (71st percentile)
The name Veda is the #2,276 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,289 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 70.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,348 (76.4% percentile) for all time with 13,284 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2019.
Veda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 2019 for boys). Birth data for Veda is available in 141 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (141 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Veda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Veda reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 33.8% percentile (ranked #627) with 193 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 205 births per million (ranked 14.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1991, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Veda ranks #627 for girls (33.8% percentile) with 193 births per million, which is 94.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Veda reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #917) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Veda".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Veda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.0% confident that Veda is pronounced as VAY-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VEE-duh, at 39.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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