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Vena

Girls' name

Yearning, desire

Vena has been given to 2,804 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1919, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Vena, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vena: meaning, origin, and history

Yearning, desire

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vena means

Vena means “yearning, desire”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Vena is used in Hinduism.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,804 girls were recorded with the name Vena between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 74 in 1919; its best national rank was #501 in 1898.

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 Vena?

Vena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vena 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Venas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vena was born before 1924 — so the typical Vena is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
717
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (523).

Is Vena 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 1919 (74)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#501
1898

Spellings of Vena

Vena is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 19.5% against Vena's 0.06%.

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 Vena is used

Across 1910–2025, Vena was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 166,930 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 20,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Missouri1 in 100,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Vena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vena around the world

Where Vena 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
    2007–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1946–1967
    #650
    in 1967

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vena 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
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Best rank ever
#501
1898
Peak year
1919
74 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,804
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vena

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

SenaXenaVeniceKenaMenaZenaVenusReenaEnaIrenaTenaVennaNeenaAdenaRaenaMeenaBenaLeenaArlenaKalenaJenaEllenaSarenaSirena

Names with a curve like Vena

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

ElvinaCliffordMargarettaDelphiaElmiraTressieEdythPinkieClemmieAlbertineVerdieEsta

Sibling names for Vena

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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