Velita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Velita has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1968, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Velita, 1973
1 in 603,000
Velita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Velita?
Velita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1973
- 1 in 603,000
- 5 of 3,016,706 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1973
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,205 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Velita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1973 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,205 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Velita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Velitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Velita was born before 1961 — so the typical Velita is around 64 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 54.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 83
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (52).
Is Velita 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1968 (12)
- Years since peak
- 57
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.2% average annual change
Spellings of Velita
Velita is not the most common spelling — Velma is, with 15.2% against Velita's 0.02%.
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.
Velita around the world
Where Velita 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.
- South Australia1983–1983#686in 1983
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Velita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Velita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Velita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.