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Veer

#942 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Vera

Veer has been given to 2,922 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #942 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 250 recorded.

Babies named Veer, 2025

1 in 13,300

Veer over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Veer: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Vera

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Veer means

Veer is a short form of Vera.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Veer → Vera. The family’s meaning is “faith”, recorded in English with the source elements Véra.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vera.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,922 boys were recorded with the name Veer between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 250 in 2025; its best national rank was #942 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,140 in 2020 to #942 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,501 in 2015 to #942 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Veer?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,300
250 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,830
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#942
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,193 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Veer sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,193 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Veer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Veers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Veer was born before 2018 — so the typical Veer is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,922
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.8% of all recorded uses (1,309).

Is Veer 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
+139
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+198
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+559
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (250)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#942
2025

Spellings of Veer

Veer is not the most common spelling — Peter is, with 60.8% against Veer's 0.30%.

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 Veer is used

Across 2016–2025, Veer was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,000 boys, against 1 in 7,727 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

150 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 2,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 4,545
  3. 3Illinois1 in 5,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 5,000
  5. 5California1 in 5,263
  6. 6New York1 in 5,882
  7. 7Virginia1 in 6,250
  8. 8Georgia1 in 7,692

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Veer around the world

Where Veer 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #496
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Veer by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#942
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 198
Best rank ever
#942
2025
Peak year
2025
250 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,922
Count in 2025
250

Names similar to Veer

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Veer

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Veer, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Veer

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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