Verda
Verda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 351st, in 1898.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918283 births
- Best rank
- #351in 1898
- Since 1882
- 8,062people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,062 girls have been named Verda in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 283 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 283 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Verda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 158 | |
| 1890s | 529 | |
| 1900s | 765 | |
| 1910s | 1,917 | |
| 1920s | 2,120 | |
| 1930s | 1,197 | |
| 1940s | 683 | |
| 1950s | 396 | |
| 1960s | 215 | |
| 1970s | 58 | |
| 1980s | 12 | |
| 1990s | 12 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Verda was the 390th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Verda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Beaulahpeak 1921
- Hildapeak 1921
- Myrlepeak 1915
- Vergiepeak 1919
- Mariepeak 1920
- Ionepeak 1920
- Etherpeak 1921
- Margueritepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.