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Verdell

Verdell reached its high-water mark in 1932 at number 923, and has been recorded 3,425 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2010. About 1,600 Verdells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Verdell boys named Verdell

Girls and boys called Verdell

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 2,085 girls and 1,340 boys in all, and in 1969 the split was 6 to 20.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 52 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
3,425
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
69
Peak year
1932
Best rank
923rd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1907
Girls / boys
2,085 / 1,340

How old the living Verdells are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,425 babies given the name since 1907, about 1,600 are alive — 46 in every hundred. Roughly 11 of them are children and 960 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Verdell is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Verdell is most concentrated in Alabama (12.1×), Georgia (8.6×), Florida (5.2×), South Carolina (4.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1932

The most popular girls’ names the year Verdell peaked:

All the names of 1932

Related names

Verdell against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.