Veena
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- VEE-nah
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Veena is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “lute, stringed instrument”. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
What does Veena mean?
Sanskrit: from Sanskrit vina
“lute, stringed instrument”
The veena is the stringed instrument held by Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning and music.
Is Veena a girl's or a boy's name?
Veena is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Veena in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2005, with 4 girls.
Veena in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
How popular is Veena in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,324among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Veena, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. It first appears in the records in 1951.
2025 had the most girls named Veena of any year since it first appeared, in 1951.
Half of all the girls named Veena in the US since 1880 were born between 1983 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Veena in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,480 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,823 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,571 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,802 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,278 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,718 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,949 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,057 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,423 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,495 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,154 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,686 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,918 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,456 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,560 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,477 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,703 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,943 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,802 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,911 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,750 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,931 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,941 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,599 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,171 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,898 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,664 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,361 |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,641 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,299 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,563 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,816 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,766 |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 0 | – |
| 1957 | 0 | – |
| 1956 | 0 | – |
| 1955 | 0 | – |
| 1954 | 0 | – |
| 1953 | 0 | – |
| 1952 | 0 | – |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,413 |
Names like Veena
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Viha Priya Krisha Prisha Varnika Vanya Navya Radhika Vaani Vihana Isha Kridha
Names related to Veena
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Veena: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/veena, updated 20 October 2026.