Verna
The girl's name Verna has been in the national records since 1880, with 69,638 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,459th. About 18,000 Vernas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Verna boys named Verna
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 69,638
- Estimated living today
- 18,000
- Median age today
- 72
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 125th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,459th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 69,113 / 525
How old the living Vernas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 69,638 babies given the name since 1880, about 18,000 are alive — 26 in every hundred. Roughly 550 of them are children and 13,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1953 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 the name comes from
Origin Latin
Coined in the 19th century, from Latin vernus (“spring-like”) or as a feminine of Vernon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Vernas
- Verna Felton (1890–1966)American actress
- Verna Bloom (1938–2019)American actress
- Verna Hillie (1914–1997)American actress
- Verna Fields (1918–1982)American film editor and entertainment industry executive
People named Verna with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Verna is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Verna is most concentrated in North Dakota (4.2×), South Dakota (3.5×), Arkansas (2.7×), Nebraska (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Verna peaked:
Verna among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Verna | 880 | 1,101 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Verna 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.