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Vernadette vs Vernell

American parents have registered 10,468 Vernells since 1880, against 65 Vernadettes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vernadette against Vernell, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vernadette Vernell

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

Vernell has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1897 to 2021. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1978, when Vernadette had 6 and Vernell had 47.

Side by side

  Vernadette Vernell
Total US births 6510,468
Most in one year 9215
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 605,100
Median age today 5868
Peak year 19591924
Best rank 4,300th girls543rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19591897
Girls / boys 65 / 07,124 / 3,344

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Vernells alive today are over 68; half the Vernadettes are over 58. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vernadette and Vernell.