Girl
Veda
As a girl's name, Veda is understood to mean "knowledge". It has been climbing steadily, peaking most recently in the 2010s. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
SanskritSanskrit
EtymologyMeaning "knowledge"
Births by decade
1900s
528
1910s
1,304
1920s
1,636
1930s
996
1940s
1,039
1950s
1,044
1960s
893
1970s
348
1980s
173
1990s
280
2000s
837
2010s
1,892
Peaked in the 2010s · 10,970 total U.S. births since 1900