How Many People Are Named Veda?
people named Veda are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 39,549 people in the US has this name
Based on 14,076 babies named Veda in Social Security records from 1881 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
410 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "knowledge" in Sanskrit.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Veda (99.9%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Veda alive today is about 30 years old, and 64% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 61 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Veda first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 2024, to 410 babies. In 2025, 370 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Veda has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #415, in 1899. In 2025 it ranked #739.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #739 |
| Best rank | #415 (1899) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,037 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Veda alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Veda were born in California than in any other state: about 722 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Veda was given 4 times as often in Arkansas, 2.5 times in Missouri and 2.5 times in Oklahoma.
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