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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Vel

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

13

peak year 1958

More common than

29%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1958
7 births
Best rank
#5,376
in 1958
First recorded
1958
#5,376 that year
Last recorded
1962
no later published record
Average birth year
1960
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
2 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19587#5,376Peak
  2. 19626#6,539

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #5,376 in 1958 · peak births 7 in 1958

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 46% boys■ 54% girls

11 boys · 13 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Vel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.