Veena
#6,529 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Veena has been given to 636 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #6,529 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Veena, 2025
1 in 184,000
Veena over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Veena?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 89,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,529
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Veena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Veena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Veenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Veena was born before 1997 — so the typical Veena is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 18.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 636
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 18.1% of all recorded uses (115).
Is Veena rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +382
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,407
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +12,402
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.60×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (18)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.1% average annual change
Spellings of Veena
Veena is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 16.4% against Veena's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Veena is used
Across 1910–2025, Veena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,800,137 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Indiana1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Veena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Veena around the world
Where Veena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–2012#5,876in 2012
- France2009–2009#6,246in 2009
- South Australia1952–1998#710in 1998
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Veena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Veena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Veena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.