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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Velma

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#5,903

up +2,504 places

2025 births

21

up +8 births

All-time births

86,752

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1921
2,606 births
Best rank
#88
in 1912
First recorded
1880
#434 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1929
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19212,606#108Peak
  2. 19202,491#105
  3. 19182,439#103
  4. 19172,411#99
  5. 19222,367#113

Rank over time

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

Best rank #88 in 1912 · peak births 2,606 in 1921

Boys and girls

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

● 1% boys■ 99% girls

450 boys · 86,752 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 Velma has ranked, decade by decade

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