Veasna

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

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Veasna has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

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