Veda

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Veda is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alternative letter-case form of Veda (“malt loaf bread”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 48K◐
  • CACanada1 in 67K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 115K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈7.2K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
265 ●

52K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 48K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

VedaLatin · English●46K records
ВедаCyrillic · Russian●452 records

Locally spelled Веда in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and Vedå in NO Norway.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Alternative letter-case form of Veda (“malt loaf bread”).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Veda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6,93542K rec.1 in 48K6.9KVeda265
IN India—1,8451.9K rec.—70Veda63
GB United Kingdom—1,8021.8K rec.—3Veda48
CA Canada—1,248752 rec.—14Veda38
AU Australia—839826 rec.—1Veda57
RU Russia—426279 rec.—listedВеда66
ID Indonesia—291109 rec.——Veda49
DE Germany—271298 rec.—1Veda36
IT Italy—202207 rec.—1Veda9
PH Philippines—163160 rec.——Veda10
EG Egypt—117106 rec.——Veda6
JM Jamaica#987105109 rec.——Veda5

Roughly 6.9K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 48K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English46K50%
  • Hindi22K24%
  • Spanish6K6%
  • Turkish4.4K5%
  • 2K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English46,13850%
Hindi22,08924%
Spanish5,9716%
Turkish4,4465%
2,0372%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Veda is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name26K records spelled Veda17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Bangla

    Also written Bedu, বেদ, Vedi, বেদু, Védà

  • Spanish given name9.5K records spelled Veda11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Vëdä, Véda, Védā, Vedå, Vedâ

  • a separate given name2.5K records spelled Veda3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Vedå, Vêda

  • English given name549 records spelled Veda143 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Indonesia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Hindi, Indonesian

    Also written Vida, Wida, วิดา, รวิดา, วาด๊ะ

  • Croatian given name412 records spelled Veda8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Bulgaria, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Веда

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Veda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, prohibition, ban

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Vanisse, Vanissee, Vanita, Vanna, Sabiduría y conocimiento

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • Dattatreya (N); Siva (N); Visnu (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In English, Hindu sacred writings

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • sacred writings

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0200400600190019502000410 · 2024

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Veda in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
18816
18825
18849
188517
18868
188716
188826
188919
189027
189118
189223
189322
189431
189541
189637
189744
189846
189950
190052
190152
190252
190352
190440
190554
190651
190759
190860
190956
191065
191174
1912101
1913107
1914118
1915168
1916171
1917169
1918167
1919164
1920193
1921188
1922166
1923162
1924167
1925169
1926166
1927145
1928137
1929143
1930126
193197
193297
1933106
1934118
1935101
193699
193795
193889
193968
194080
194170
194282
194367
194465
194583
1946200
1947164
1948137
194991
195097
195193
195296
1953107
1954128
195579
1956108
195795
1958122
1959119
1960128
1961116
1962101
1963108
1964102
196573
196678
196774
196859
196954
197048
197163
197235
197341
197431
197528
197627
197720
197834
197921
198025
198127
198225
198320
198418
198510
198617
198720
198911
199017
199110
199219
199336
199424
199525
199640
199731
199828
199950
200060
200149
200267
200362
200465
200598
200675
200796
2008132
2009133
2010155
2011202
2012177
2013211
2014227
2015289
2016319
2017319
2018302
2019316
2020283
2021313
2022313
2023342
2024410
2025370

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 143 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Veda Wright Stone, b. 1906Veda Ann Borg, b. 1915Veda Hlubinka-Cook, b. 1964Veda Hille, b. 1968Veda Yurtsever, b. 1969Veda Scott, b. 1984Veda Krishnamurthy, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 60 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Veda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.9K#3,131
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025370—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000237#75,695
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010224#83,834
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020131#133,930
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—115#57,034
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—108#21,680
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—89#5,940
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202478—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—70#35,808
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202066#3,131
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—64#10,284

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 439 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Veda?
We estimate roughly 7.2 thousand people bear Veda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Veda have the most bearers?
We estimate about 6.9 thousand people bear Veda in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled veda.
How common is Veda compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Veda is the 987th most common given name of 20,217 given names recorded there.
Is Veda a male or female name?
Veda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Veda mean?
Recorded meaning: Alternative letter-case form of Veda (“malt loaf bread”).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Veda” — the 987th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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