Feminine dossier · first seen 1888

Velva

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Velva
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1916

Peak rank proxy

139

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1888Peak 19162024

Peak year

1916

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

4,274

Velva has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1916, when 139 girls were named Velva.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 4,274 Americans have been named Velva and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1888.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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