Veta
Recorded 1889–2021 · United States
Veta was most popular in 1916, when 58 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,663 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,021 people named Veta.
Veta over time
How old is the name Veta?
Veta first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1889, which makes it about 136 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 94 of the 137 years since.
How many people are named Veta?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,021 American births named Veta between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 680 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Veta in 2025?
Veta was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Veta getting more or less popular?
Veta is new. It was not recorded at all a decade ago and averaged 5 births a year across 2021–2025.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Veta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Veta is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,021 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Veta?
Roughly 680 Americans named Veta are alive today — 34% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 71 years old, and half are between 63 and 79.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Veta is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org