Vern vs Vernice
American parents have registered 11,982 Verns since 1880, against 8,079 Vernices. Vern is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Vern Vernice
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 137 years in which either name was published, Vern for 117 years and Vernice for 20 years. The lead changed hands 26 times.
- 1880–1987 Vern ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1990–1999 Vernice ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2000–2005 Vern ahead
- 2008–2011 Vernice ahead
- 2013–2025 Vern ahead
18 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Vern | Vernice | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 11,982 | 8,079 |
| Most in one year | 282 | 245 |
| Babies in 2025 | 7 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 3,700 | 2,700 |
| Median age today | 68 | 68 |
| Peak year | 1920 | 1923 |
| Best rank | 359th boys | 458th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 9,714th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1887 |
| Girls / boys | 485 / 11,497 | 7,290 / 789 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Where each one is strongest
- Vern South Dakota (10.1×), Idaho (8.7×), Nebraska (7.1×)
- Vernice Mississippi (7.3×), Arkansas (5.7×), Louisiana (4.2×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vern and Vernice.