Veasna
Origin
Khmer
Syllables
2
Peak era
1980s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
destiny, fate; from Sanskrit vasana. The signature boys' name of the post-1975 generation: parents who had lost everything named sons Veasna as a bet on what came next, and men of that cohort carry it through Long Beach and Lowell today
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1980s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Veasna peaked in the 1980s.
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