Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Veleka

#21,250 most common girls' name of all time · #34,653 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1971–1981

Rank among girls
#21,250
Rank overall
#34,653 of 105,966
First appeared
1971
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
146
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1978 #2,675
Best rank
#2,675 1978
Girls Boys peak 32/yr
1980

Veleka first appears in 1971. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1981 5 — 5 #11,270
1980 18 — 18 #4,291
1979 12 — 12 #5,667
1978 32 — 32 #2,675
1977 18 — 18 #4,045
1976 16 — 16 #4,120
1975 8 — 8 #6,992
1973 7 — 7 #7,295
1972 9 — 9 #5,913
1971 21 — 21 #3,265