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Veva

Girls' name

Short form of Genoveva

Veva has been given to 1,598 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1922, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Veva, 1975

1 in 431,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Veva: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Genoveva

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Veva means

Veva is a short form of Genoveva.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Veva is used in Spanish and Portuguese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbe.βa/ for Veva.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Veva is a short form of Genoveva. Genoveva has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Genoveva.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,598 girls were recorded with the name Veva between 1882 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1922; its best national rank was #413 in 1899.

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 Veva?

Veva had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1975
1 in 431,000
7 of 3,019,126 births
Among girls only
1 in 208,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1975
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
298,958 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Veva 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 1975 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 298,958 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Veva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vevas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Veva was born before 1920 — so the typical Veva is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
160
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (375).

Is Veva 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 1922 (60)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#413
1899

Spellings of Veva

Veva is not the most common spelling — Ava is, with 18.1% against Veva's 0.08%.

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 Veva is used

Across 1910–2025, Veva was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 204,094 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 100,000
  2. 2Missouri1 in 100,000
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 100,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Indiana1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Oregon1 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. Veva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Veva 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
#413
1899
Peak year
1922
60 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
1,598
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Veva

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

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Sibling names for Veva

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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