Vernie
The girl's name Vernie has been in the national records since 1880, with 6,719 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1991. About 1,300 Vernies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vernie boys named Vernie
Girls and boys called Vernie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Vernie crossed from girls to boys in 1954, and has stayed there for 12 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 76% boys, and in 1967 it was 65%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 80 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
- 6,719
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 74
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 606th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 3,959 / 2,760
How old the living Vernies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,719 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,300 are alive — 19 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 960 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 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 Vernie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vernie is most concentrated in Oklahoma (7.0×), North Carolina (6.7×), Kentucky (6.1×), Arkansas (5.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular girls’ names the year Vernie peaked:
Related names
Vernie 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.