Vela - Meaning of Vela

What does Vela mean?

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Vela

[ 2 syll. ve-la, vel-a ] The baby boy name Vela is also used as a girl name, with the latter form being much more common. Its pronunciation is VAH-Laa- †. Vela is largely used in the Czech language and its origin is Slavonic. Vela is a diminutive form of the name Veleslav (Czech).

See also the related category czech.

Vela is not regularly used as a baby name for boys. It is not listed in the top 1000 names. In the past century Vela has mostly been a girl name.

Baby names that sound like Vela include Vali, Valie, Vallo, Valo, Váli (Scandinavian), Veli (Albanian and Finnish), Velyo (Slavic), Vibole, Vili (Hungarian), Vilja (Hungarian), Viljo (Finnish), Ville (Finnish and Scandinavian), Vipool, Vipul, Vipull, Vlaho (Russian), Volee, Voley, Voli, and Vollee.

† English pronunciation for Vela: V as in "vow (V.AW)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)"