Velta
Velta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192736 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1899
- 1,113people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,113 girls have been named Velta in the United States since 1899, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 36 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 36 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 27%.
By decade
In 1927, its biggest year
Velta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1927 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Velta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pearlinepeak 1927
- Eleasepeak 1923
- Wilmapeak 1925
- Melbapeak 1924
- Verlapeak 1922
- Bernadinepeak 1924
- Lavonapeak 1934
- Lorinepeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.