Name meaning & stats
Velma
Velma. 22,034 US babies since 1940, peak 1942.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
A modern coinage.
In US birth records
Peak year: 1942
22,034 US babies were named Velma between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Velma (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1942)