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Velia

#9,423 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly concealed

Velia has been given to 2,831 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #9,423 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1929, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Velia, 2025

1 in 301,000

Velia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Velia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly concealed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Velia means

Velia may mean “concealed”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,831 girls were recorded with the name Velia between 1904 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 72 in 1929; its best national rank was #840 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,379 in 2020 to #9,423 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,777 in 2015 to #9,423 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.

How common is Velia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,423
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Velia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Velia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Velias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Velia was born before 1950 — so the typical Velia is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
15.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,417
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Choose a decade

1930s — 15.8% of all recorded uses (447).

Is Velia 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
+5,700
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,956
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,354
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.3%
Peak was 1929 (72)
Years since peak
96
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#840
1929

Spellings of Velia

Velia is not the most common spelling — Julia is, with 17.6% against Velia's 0.10%.

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 Velia is used

Across 1910–2025, Velia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 33,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 12,500
  2. 2Arizona1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 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. Velia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Velia around the world

Where Velia 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
    2021–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1913–1973
    #2,581
    in 1973
  • South Australia
    1965–1978
    #626
    in 1978

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.

Notable people named Velia

People whose public names include Velia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Velia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,423
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,956
Best rank ever
#840
1929
Peak year
1929
72 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,831
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Velia

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

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Names with a curve like Velia

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

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Sibling names for Velia

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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