Vern
Vern is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 273rd, in 1895.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1920274 births
- Best rank
- #273in 1895
- Since 1880
- 11,975people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,490 boys have been named Vern in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 274 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 274 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 485 girls have also been given it, 4.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Vern | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 244 | |
| 1890s | 350 | |
| 1900s | 355 | |
| 1910s | 1,538 | |
| 1920s | 2,357 | |
| 1930s | 1,683 | |
| 1940s | 1,591 | |
| 1950s | 1,611 | |
| 1960s | 984 | |
| 1970s | 368 | |
| 1980s | 214 | |
| 1990s | 107 | |
| 2000s | 45 | |
| 2010s | 15 | |
| 2020s | 28 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Vern was the 360th 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 Vern
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ernestpeak 1921
- Clydepeak 1920
- Dorseypeak 1916
- Earlpeak 1921
- Vernepeak 1919
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Roypeak 1947
- Hermanpeak 1921
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.