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Velinda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Velinda has been given to 896 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1958, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Velinda, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Velinda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Velinda means

Velinda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Velinda is used in Norwegian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 896 girls were recorded with the name Velinda between 1942 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1958; its best national rank was #1,582 in 1954.

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 Velinda?

Velinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Velinda 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Velinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Velindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Velinda was born before 1961 — so the typical Velinda is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
831
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (320).

Is Velinda 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (45)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,582
1954

Spellings of Velinda

Velinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 80.4% against Velinda's 0.05%.

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 Velinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Velinda was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 749,320 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Velinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Velinda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,582
1954
Peak year
1958
45 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
896
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Velinda

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

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Sibling names for Velinda

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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