Verle
Verle is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 852nd, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192064 births
- Best rank
- #852in 1920
- Since 1906
- 2,279people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,758 boys have been named Verle in the United States since 1906, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 64 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 64 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Verle is used for both sexes: 23% of its bearers are girls (521), most of them born around 1920.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1920, its biggest year
Verle was the 852nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Verle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Beaufordpeak 1934
- Hoylepeak 1925
- Lavernpeak 1924
- Verlinpeak 1929
- Laddiepeak 1919
- Dormanpeak 1928
- Haskelpeak 1924
- Durwoodpeak 1943
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.