Laveda
Feminine
Laveda has a word inside it that reaches further back than almost anything else in this record. Veda is the Sanskrit for knowledge, and it comes from a root that English still uses every day without recognizing it — the same ancient word that gave us wit, wise and the whole idea of knowing something.
How old is the name Laveda?
Laveda first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Laveda alive today was born around 1943, making them about 82 years old. About 600 people named Laveda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Laveda most popular?
Laveda peaked in 1936, reaching #1480 nationally. See the whole 1936 chart.
Where it comes from
From an Indo-European root meaning to see and so to know to Laveda
The story of Laveda
The Sanskrit word is a cousin of ordinary English. Linguists reconstruct a root in the ancestor language behind Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and English that meant to see and, by an easy extension, to know — the same step English makes when it says I see, meaning I understand. From that root Sanskrit built veda, knowledge, and the four collections of hymns that carry the name. Latin built its verb for seeing, which gives English video and evident. Greek built the word behind idea. And English itself, coming down its own line, built wit, wise and wisdom. They are all the same word, four thousand years apart.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name looks like a productive American front element attached to Veda, and Veda was a real American girls' name at exactly the time Laveda appears. That does not prove it. A Latin echo is also possible, and there was a fashion for names that merely sounded Romance. What the record shows is a name arriving in the 1910s, holding on for two generations and stopping — with no dictionary entry at any point and no family tradition that anyone wrote down.
How the name formed
- an Indo-European root meaning to see and so to know
- Sanskrit veda, knowledge, and the hymn collections
- Veda used as an American girls' name
- Laveda appears in the record in the 1910s
- peaks in the 1930s and fades after the war
Related forms: Veda · Lavetta · Laveta
Pronouncing Laveda
luh-VEE-duh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle and a first vowel that barely registers. A minority say luh-VAY-duh, which the spelling permits and which sounds like a different name.
Nicknames for Laveda
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most girls named
- 192128 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1480reached in 1936
- Change vs 1990
- −16.7%5 in 2011, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Laveda in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Veda in Sanskrit — related form
- Lavetta in English — related form
- Laveta in English — spelling variant
Lavedas among us
people named Laveda are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Laveda sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is soft throughout, with no hard consonant anywhere, and it is read correctly at sight.
- Veda and Vee are both waiting inside it, and Veda has genuine antiquity behind it.
- It is rare enough to be unrepeated and ordinary enough to need no explanation.
- The Sanskrit connection is real for the element inside the name but cannot be claimed for the name itself.
- The middle vowel is genuinely unsettled and she will hear both readings.
- It is firmly a name of the first half of the last century.
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- How many Lavedas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Laveda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Laveda is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Laveda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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