Velna
Last seen for girls in 1956 at #4,837
- Peak · girls
- 1915 · 30 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 558since 1900
Velna over time
Rank among girls' names. Velna has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
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| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 |
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| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,736 | 10 |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 |
| 1937 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 |
| 1935 | #3,156 | 8 |
| 1934 | #2,087 | 15 |
| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 |
| 1932 | #1,957 | 17 |
| 1931 | #2,024 | 16 |
| 1930 | #2,425 | 13 |
| 1929 | #1,892 | 19 |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 |
| 1927 | #2,433 | 14 |
| 1926 | #1,932 | 20 |
| 1925 | #1,946 | 20 |
| 1924 | #2,137 | 18 |
| 1923 | #2,091 | 18 |
| 1922 | #2,291 | 16 |
| 1921 | #1,988 | 20 |
| 1920 | #2,015 | 19 |
| 1919 | #1,649 | 24 |
| 1918 | #1,411 | 30 |
| 1917 | #2,100 | 16 |
| 1916 | #1,485 | 25 |
| 1915 | #1,285 | 30 |
| 1914 | #1,665 | 16 |
| 1913 | #1,883 | 11 |
| 1912 | #1,719 | 11 |
| 1911 | #1,372 | 12 |
| 1910 | #1,521 | 10 |
| 1909 | #1,369 | 10 |
| 1908 | #2,101 | 5 |
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| 1905 | #1,298 | 9 |
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| 1902 | #1,320 | 8 |
| 1901 | #1,466 | 6 |
| 1900 | #1,431 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Velna! It came in at #1,431, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1903–1904, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Velna
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1956
- Debuted 1900
- Peaked 1915 at #1,285 (30 births)
- Births halved by 1927, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,402 girls born in 1905 were named Velna (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 286,815 girls born in 1956 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,285 in 1915, was only 1 in 32,795 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.2% of all girls named Velna (185) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 46 | #1,298 (1905) | #1,498 |
| 1910s | 185 | #1,285 (1915) | #1,609 |
| 1920s | 172 | #1,892 (1929) | #2,216 |
| 1930s | 109 | #1,957 (1932) | #2,775 |
| 1940s | 28 | #3,249 (1943) | #3,771 |
| 1950s | 18 | #4,738 (1950) | #5,109 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Velna in 1921
Top girls' names in 1921
More about 1921
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1,233,058 girls got a published name in 1921; 1 in 61,653 of them was named Velna, which outranked 66.1% of the 5,871 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,927Wynema21
- #1,927Zelia21
- #1,927Zina21
- #1,988Velna20
- #1,988Aggie20
- #1,988Aldean20
- #1,988Allyne20
- #2,048Adda19
- #2,048Aileene19
- #2,048Alison19
Tied with 59 names at #1,988; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.