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Velinda vs Vella

American parents have registered 2,283 Vellas since 1880, against 896 Velindas. Vella is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Velinda against Vella, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Velinda Vella

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 134 years in which either name was published, Vella for 85 years and Velinda for 49 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Velinda Vella
Total US births 8962,283
Most in one year 4553
Babies in 2025 under 527
Estimated living today 770760
Median age today 6258
Peak year 19581915
Best rank 1,588th girls900th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,878th
First recorded 19421882
Girls / boys 896 / 02,283 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Velindas alive today are over 62; half the Vellas are over 58. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Velinda and Vella.