Velia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Velia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Latín: antiguo topónimo prerromano; lugar elevado o fuerte.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 64K
- USUnited States1 in 98K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
3,378 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latín: antiguo topónimo prerromano; lugar elevado o fuerte.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Velia is read(measured from records)
Velia is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish67%
Latín: antiguo topónimo prerromano; lugar elevado o fuerte.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English25%
ridge between Palatine and Oppian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
hills, Rome
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Velia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,378 | 1 in 98K | 3.4K | Velia | 201 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 2 | Velia | 44 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 9 | Velia | 17 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Velia | 31 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Velia | 1 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 1 | Velia | 23 |
| NI Nicaragua | #669 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Velia | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | #677 | 116 | 1 in 29K | 116 | Velia | 8 |
3,378 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Velia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Proveniente da Velia
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latin, a Greek colony, situated on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea between Paestum and Buxentum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, alternative form of averla
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Velia Tittab. 1890ITItalian poet and writer
- Velia Ercoleb. 1903AUAustralian novelist
- Velia Martínezb. 1920USAmerican actress (1920-1993)
- Velia Chavesb. 1920ARArgentinian actor
- Velia Nietob. 1943MXMexican pianist
- Velia Aguilar Armendárizb. 1960MXMexican politician
- Velia Eguiluz Sotob. 1965MXMexican beach volleyball player
- Velia Vidal Romerob. 1982COColombian writer
- Velia Janse van Rensburgb. 1986ZASouth African swimmer
- Velia GalvaniITItalian actress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Velia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Latín: antiguo topónimo prerromano; lugar elevado o fuerte.
- Is Velia a male or female name?
- Velia 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.
- In which country does Velia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Velia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled velia.
- How common is the name Velia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,378 people named Velia in 2020, about 1 in 98 thousand residents.
- How common is Velia compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Velia is the 669th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/veliaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Velia” — the 669th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.