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Vella

#4,976 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Vella has been given to 2,283 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #4,976 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Vella, 2025

1 in 123,000

Vella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vella: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vella means

Vella is a given name.

The naming story behind Vella

Wikidata records Vella as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q114967234, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,283 girls were recorded with the name Vella between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1915; its best national rank was #574 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,747 in 2020 to #4,976 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,247 in 2015 to #4,976 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 Vella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,976
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vella 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vella was born before 1929 — so the typical Vella is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
603
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.0% of all recorded uses (410).

Is Vella 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
+305
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−229
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,271
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.59×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.9%
Peak was 1915 (53)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#574
1885

Spellings of Vella

Vella is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 17.7% against Vella's 0.09%.

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 Vella is used

Across 1910–2025, Vella was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 303,967 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 100,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Kansas1 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. Vella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vella around the world

Where Vella 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 Australia
    1965–1990
    #691
    in 1990

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Vella

People whose public names include Vella, 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.

Vella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,976
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 229
Best rank ever
#574
1885
Peak year
1915
53 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,283
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Vella

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

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Names with a curve like Vella

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

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Sibling names for Vella

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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