How Many People Are Named Velvet?
people named Velvet are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 122,109 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,101 babies named Velvet in Social Security records from 1920 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
332 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the English word for the soft fabric. It became used as a given name after the main character in Enid Bagnold's book 'National Velvet' (1935) and the movie (1944) and television (1960) adaptations.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Velvet (99.9%) were girls. The share has stayed close to this since the 1940s: 96% of the babies were girls then and 100% in the 2000s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Velvet alive today is about 50 years old, and 49% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 42 and 63 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Velvet first appears in the records in 1920 and was given most often in 1961, to 332 babies. In 2025, 12 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1920 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Velvet has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #542, in 1961. In 2025 it ranked #8,822.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #8,822 |
| Best rank | #542 (1961) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #947 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Velvet alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Velvet were born in California than in any other state: about 193 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Velvet was given 4.1 times as often in North Carolina, 2.3 times in Tennessee and 2.2 times in Georgia.
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