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Veda

/VAY-dah/ FeminineSanskrit

Meaning

Veda is a feminine name of Sanskrit origin meaning “knowledge”.

Veda is the Sanskrit word for knowledge, the title of Hinduism's oldest and most sacred texts, hymns composed more than three thousand years ago. As a girls' name it has quiet history in both India and early twentieth-century America, where it rode the era's taste for V-names like Vera and Velma.

Ranked in the US girls' top 1000 from the 1880s to the 1950s and recently returned.

Popularity in the United States

Girls

Ranked #738 in 2025 · peak #692 in 2024

Data: US Social Security Administration, top-1000 ranks.

At a glance

Origin
Sanskrit
Gender
Feminine
Pronounced
/VAY-dah/
Themes
Wisdom

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Questions

  • Veda is a feminine name of Sanskrit origin meaning “knowledge”. Veda is the Sanskrit word for knowledge, the title of Hinduism's oldest and most sacred texts, hymns composed more than three thousand years ago.

  • Veda is traditionally a feminine (girl) name. Ranked in the US girls' top 1000 from the 1880s to the 1950s and recently returned.

  • The name Veda comes from Sanskrit. Veda is the Sanskrit word for knowledge, the title of Hinduism's oldest and most sacred texts, hymns composed more than three thousand years ago. As a girls' name it has quiet history in both India and early twentieth-century America, where it rode the era's taste for V-names like Vera and Velma.

  • Veda is pronounced VAY-dah.

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