Verna
Verna is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 27 births. Its best rank was 117th, in 1906.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 270.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19181,873 births
- Best rank
- #117in 1906
- Since 1880
- 69,061people given the name
The story in the numbers
69,061 girls have been named Verna in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,873 births — 0.16% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 27 births in 2024, against 1,873 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Verna | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,052 | |
| 1890s | 3,036 | |
| 1900s | 4,752 | |
| 1910s | 13,214 | |
| 1920s | 16,265 | |
| 1930s | 10,582 | |
| 1940s | 7,868 | |
| 1950s | 6,160 | |
| 1960s | 3,355 | |
| 1970s | 1,165 | |
| 1980s | 537 | |
| 1990s | 334 | |
| 2000s | 288 | |
| 2010s | 310 | |
| 2020s | 143 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Verna was the 125th 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 Verna
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eunicepeak 1921
- Berylpeak 1920
- Irenepeak 1921
- Mariepeak 1920
- Fredapeak 1918
- Faypeak 1926
- Eldapeak 1916
- Alinepeak 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.