Meaning and history
Velvet is a given name derived from the English word for the soft fabric. It came into use as a personal name after the title character of Enid Bagnold’s National Velvet, published in 1935 and later adapted into a 1944 film and a 1960 television version.
20062006: 7 births, rank #13,606
2007: 12 births, rank #9,539
2008: 17 births, rank #7,408
2009: 9 births, rank #11,459
2010: 6 births, rank #14,959
20112011: 9 births, rank #11,181
2012: 12 births, rank #9,109
2013: 7 births, rank #13,150
2014: 15 births, rank #7,636
2015: 6 births, rank #14,482
20162016: 8 births, rank #11,781
2017: 11 births, rank #9,341
2018: 9 births, rank #10,545
2019: 11 births, rank #9,112
2020: 8 births, rank #11,090
20212021: 13 births, rank #8,024
2022: 16 births, rank #6,984
2023: 13 births, rank #8,055
2024: 11 births, rank #8,946
20252025: 12 births, rank #8,362
Velvet moved from #881 to #989 for girls between 1963 and 1964. Its highest annual birth count came in 1961, with 332 births.