Veikko

Boys' name

Brother

Veikko has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Veikko, 1928

1 in 452,000

Veikko over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Veikko: meaning, origin, and history

Brother

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Veikko means

Veikko means “brother”, associated with veikko.

Origin, language, and formation

Veikko is used in Finnish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Veikko is pronounced /ˈʋei̯kːo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 boys were recorded with the name Veikko between 1914 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1915; its best national rank was #2,604 in 1915.

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 Veikko?

Veikko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1928: 1 in 452,000; 5 of 2,260,857 births
Among boys only: 1 in 222,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1928: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 313,422 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Veikko 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 1928 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 313,422 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Veikko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Veikkos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Veikko was born before 1919 — so the typical Veikko is around 106 today.

Median birth year: 1919; About 106 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 52.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 52.5% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Veikko 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (10)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,604; 1915

Spellings of Veikko

Veikko is not the most common spelling — Nikko is, with 72.6% against Veikko's 0.95%.

Nikko72.6%4,526
Mikko13.7%854
Neiko12.8%797
Veikko0.95%59

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.

Veikko by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,604; 1915
Peak year: 1915; 10 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1928
All-time count: 59
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Veikko

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

Ekko Weikko Nekko Mekko Drakko Mikko Rokko Nykko Nikko

Sibling names for Veikko

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

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

Explore around Veikko

Top names of 1915, Veikko's peak year The 1910s in full Other names that peaked in 1915 Boys' names starting with V Uncommon Finnish Boy Names