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.

Velera

#27,216 most common girls' name of all time · #44,079 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1916–1938

Rank among girls
#27,216
Rank overall
#44,079 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
80
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1928 #3,129
Best rank
#3,129 1928
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
1920

Velera first appears in 1916. 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
1938 5 — 5 #4,679
1936 6 — 6 #4,017
1933 7 — 7 #3,647
1929 6 — 6 #4,391
1928 10 — 10 #3,129
1927 5 — 5 #5,240
1926 6 — 6 #4,667
1925 7 — 7 #4,306
1922 6 — 6 #4,820
1919 7 — 7 #4,157
1918 9 — 9 #3,494
1916 6 — 6 #4,404