Velvie

Popularity Trends

The name Velvie is the #7,514 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 225 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 2.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,491 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 225 births since 1909.

Velvie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (first recorded for girls in 1909). Birth data for Velvie is available in 31 out of the 53 years between 1909 and 1961. 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.

For girls, Velvie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #587) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 14 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1961.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Velvie".

1909 1961 19091961

Key Statistics

Total Births

225

Peak Births

Peak Year

1919

First Recorded

1909

Peak Percentile

1.2%

Current Percentile

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Peak Rank

#587

Current Rank

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Female statistics

Names with Similar Spellings

These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Velvie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Velvie.

Names with Correlated Trends

These 12 names have popularity trends that correlate most strongly with the name Velvie's popularity from 1906 to 1964 on a gender-neutral basis. Names may rise and fall in popularity for a variety of reasons, but correlations often reflect either changes in naming fashion or demographic shifts.

The correlation calculations in the table below ignore absolute popularity to show you names that move in similar directions as the name Velvie at the same time. They also correct for changes in the overall birth rate over time. The 0-100% trend values are calculated by dividing each name's gender-neutral births per million by the peak births per million for that name.

The 12 names most strongly correlated to Velvie range from Nunzio at 84.8% correlation to Leno at 83.1% correlation, with an average correlation level of 83.9%. The most popular of these 12 most correlated names is Oleta with 5.5K births (100% girls) and the least popular is Tsuruko with 185 births (100% girls).

Velvie's share of births peaked at 13.6 births per million for girls in 1919. It reached its lowest point of 2.4 births per million (18% of peak) in 1956. In 1961, the most recent period with data, the name Velvie had 3.4 births per million, 25% of its peak popularity.

This chart shows how each name's popularity has changed over time relative to its peak (100%).

Nunzio

1,824

84.85% (very strong)

Othel

886

84.66% (very strong)

Masako

821

84.54% (very strong)

Oleta

5,472

84.30% (very strong)

Mazelle

218

84.13% (very strong)

Gasper

1,469

84.13% (very strong)

Eulas

517

83.78% (very strong)

Tsuruko

185

83.71% (very strong)

Silvio

2,913

83.43% (very strong)

Alfonse

1,392

83.36% (very strong)

Nello

949

83.27% (very strong)

Leno

652

83.05% (very strong)

About this table: Correlation values are shown as percentages from 0% to 100%, with each value accompanied by its strength (very weak to very strong). Higher percentages and stronger correlations indicate names that rise and fall together more closely in popularity. The strength labels are color-coded from gray (very weak) to green (very strong). The Trend column visualizes how each name's popularity has changed over time relative to its peak. Absolute correlation values are shown for simplicity (all correlations here are positive). The Total Births column is color-coded by gender distribution - blue shades for predominantly male names and red shades for predominantly female names, with purple hues indicating a more balanced gender distribution.

How to Pronounce Velvie

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Velvie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Velvie is pronounced as VEHL-vee, which has 2 syllables.

VEHL-vee

100.0%

VEHL-vee (2 syllables)

100.0% confidence

V EH1 L V IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like V EH1 L V IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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