Veola

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Veola has been given to 1,843 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 1926, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Veola, 2000

1 in 756,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Veola?

Veola had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 756,000
5 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
523,812 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Veola 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 2000 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 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Veola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Veolas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Veola was born before 1928 — so the typical Veola is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.54%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
218
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1920s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (490).

Is Veola 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1926 (64)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#869
1906

Spellings of Veola

Veola is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 21.2% against Veola's 0.11%.

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 Veola is used

Across 1910–2025, Veola was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 57,122 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 20,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 25,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 33,333
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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. Veola has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Veola 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
#869
1906
Peak year
1926
64 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
1,843
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Veola

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