Vernell
The girl's name Vernell has been in the national records since 1897, with 10,468 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 5,100 Vernells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Vernell
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Vernell crossed from girls to boys in 1970, and has stayed there for 25 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, and in 1995 it was 79%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 84 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
- 10,468
- Estimated living today
- 5,100
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 543rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1897
- Girls / boys
- 7,124 / 3,344
How old the living Vernells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,468 babies given the name since 1897, about 5,100 are alive — 48 in every hundred. Roughly 90 of them are children and 2,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 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 Vernell is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vernell is most concentrated in South Carolina (9.8×), Mississippi (5.8×), Virginia (3.7×), North Carolina (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Vernell peaked:
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Vernell 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.