Verner

At the 2020 census, 2,605 Americans bore the surname Verner — 11,544th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 115,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,605
Rank: 11,544th
How common: 1 in 115,000
Per 100,000: 0.87

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Derived from German Werner.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Verner described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 71.8%
Black, not Hispanic 21.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Verner

Karl Verner (1846–1896)Danish linguist
Tomáš Verner (born 1986)Czech figure skater
Miroslav Verner (born 1941)Czech egyptologist and university educator
Frank Verner (1883–1966)American middle and long distance runner

People named Verner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Verner

Also a first name

Verner has been given to 2,134 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1917. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.