Veta
Veta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 788th, in 1908.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191658 births
- Best rank
- #788in 1908
- Since 1889
- 2,021people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,021 girls have been named Veta in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 58 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 58 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Veta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 86 | |
| 1900s | 131 | |
| 1910s | 343 | |
| 1920s | 408 | |
| 1930s | 279 | |
| 1940s | 224 | |
| 1950s | 277 | |
| 1960s | 177 | |
| 1970s | 57 | |
| 1980s | 6 | |
| 1990s | 10 | |
| 2010s | 12 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Veta was the 892nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Veta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ruthpeak 1920
- Delsiepeak 1920
- Irmapeak 1920
- Colettapeak 1924
- Margaritepeak 1925
- Versiepeak 1914
- Verapeak 1918
- Vernapeak 1918
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.