Veda is a Sanskrit name that stands for ‘knowledge’. It is a rare name with a surprisingly long tradition in the US: it is known here since the 19th century.
Veda is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Veda isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Veda ranks 871. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Veda. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Veda.
Veda is a Sanskrit name that stands for ‘knowledge’. It is a rare name with a surprisingly long tradition in the US: it is known here since the 19th century.
The Vedas are a large... body of texts from India, that contain the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. They were written down around 1,000 BCE.
Veda is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1988, where the name Veda was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Veda and were born in the USA in 1988 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Veda even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1901, it ranked on position 400 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Veda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Veda has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 311 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #808 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 311 girls named Veda, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Veda'.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Veda is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Veda and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Veda, you can simply say:
Violin
Elephant
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Veda
Veda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
E
D
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
V
E
D
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Veda sounds like this:
