Feminine dossier · first seen 1920

Velvet

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

Endangered Down 96.7% from peak

Peak era

1961

Peak rank proxy

332

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Boomer

1920Peak 19612024

Peak year

1961

Decline from peak

96.7%

2024

All-time

3,083

Velvet once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1961, when 332 girls were named Velvet.

In 2024, only 11 girls were given the name.

Down 96.7% from its peak.

All told, about 3,083 Americans have been named Velvet and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1920.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 96.7% from peak

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