Velvet
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#8,824
up +695 places
2025 births
12
up +1 births
All-time births
3,096
0% of them in 2025
More common than
95%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1961
- 332 births
- Best rank
- #542
- in 1961
- First recorded
- 1920
- #4,934 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1973
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 82 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1961332#542Peak
- 1962261#626
- 1963143#881
- 1964117#989
- 197293#1,168
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #542 in 1961 · peak births 332 in 1961
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
5 boys · 3,096 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 Velvet has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.