Verl
Verl is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 673rd, in 1918.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191886 births
- Best rank
- #673in 1918
- Since 1895
- 2,728people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,517 boys have been named Verl in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 86 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 86 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 211 girls have also been given it, 7.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1918, its biggest year
Verl was the 673rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Verl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harroldpeak 1923
- Burdettepeak 1922
- Wilburtpeak 1920
- Arvilpeak 1924
- Murrellpeak 1923
- Melfordpeak 1921
- Dewardpeak 1924
- Virgelpeak 1920
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.