Verle
About 2,279 American babies have been named Verle since 1890, most of them around 1920. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1978. About 390 Verles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Verle boys named Verle
Girls and boys called Verle
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Verle crossed from girls to boys in 1915, and has stayed there for 32 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 34 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
- 2,279
- Estimated living today
- 390
- Median age today
- 76
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 846th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1890
- Girls / boys
- 521 / 1,758
How old the living Verles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,279 babies given the name since 1890, about 390 are alive — 17 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 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 Verle is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Verle is most concentrated in Iowa (41.7×), Kansas (24.1×), Illinois (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Verle peaked:
Related names
Verle 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.