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Veeda vs Veer

American parents have registered 2,922 Veers since 1880, against 60 Veedas. Veer is still ahead, with 250 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Veeda against Veer, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Veeda Veer

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 37 years in which either name was published, Veer for 27 years and Veeda for 10 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Veeda Veer
Total US births 602,922
Most in one year 8250
Babies in 2025 under 5250
Estimated living today 402,900
Median age today 767
Peak year 19262025
Best rank 3,564th girls940th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked940th
First recorded 19261997
Girls / boys 60 / 00 / 2,922

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Veedas alive today are over 76; half the Veers are over 7. That is 69 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Veeda and Veer.