Girls' name · peaked in 1906
Verna name popularity since 1925
38,650 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Verna (99.2% girls, 0.8% boys). Half of them were born in 1941 or earlier, so the typical Verna is about 85 years old in 2026. Verna peaked in 1906 as the #117 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 38,650
- Named Verna, 1925–2025
- Peak year
- 1906
- #117 for girls that year
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #3,513 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 99.2% girls
- 38,328 girls · 322 boys
- Most popular in
- North Dakota
- 3.86× its national share
Peak year is the year Verna made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Verna births per year, 1925–2025
The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Verna peaked earlier, in 1906.
- Steepest fall: Between 1969 and 1974, Verna's share of baby girls fell by 43%, from 1 in 7,920 to 1 in 13,800.
Shaded on the chart. This compares Verna's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Verna.
Decade by decade
Babies named Verna in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 7,534 | 77 | – |
| 1930s | 10,582 | 100 | #181 |
| 1940s | 7,868 | 54 | #253 |
| 1950s | 6,160 | 50 | #346 |
| 1960s | 3,355 | 29 | #578 |
| 1970s | 1,165 | 12 | #1,138 |
| 1980s | 537 | 0 | #2,316 |
| 1990s | 334 | 0 | #3,877 |
| 2000s | 293 | 0 | #4,823 |
| 2010s | 313 | 0 | #5,445 |
| 2020–25 | 187 | 0 | #3,513 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.
Generation fingerprint
47.8% of babies named Verna from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:
Where Verna is most popular
The index compares Verna's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Verna.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 3.86× | 437 |
| South Dakota | 3.33× | 381 |
| Arkansas | 3.05× | 1,123 |
| Louisiana | 2.66× | 1,711 |
| Oklahoma | 2.34× | 1,096 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Verna's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Verna.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Verna (1906).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data