Meaning not yet researched.
Verla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #490 in 1922.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #490 in 1922. No US babies were recorded with the name Verla in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #490 in 1922.
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Verla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #490 in 1922 · most girls in one year: 199 (1922).
Fewer than five US girls were named Verla in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #490, reached in 1922. That year also had the most girls given the name: 199. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,143 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Verla in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 8 babies. In all, 6,190 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,779 babies named Verla.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Verla.
Rarer spellings such as Virla and Verlla are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Virla (50), Verlla (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Verla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 9 | #7,292 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,135 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,535 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,858 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,203 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,181 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,787 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,811 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,671 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,479 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,610 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,851 | — | — |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,508 | — | — |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1954 | 58 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1951 | 57 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1950 | 66 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1949 | 74 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1948 | 76 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1947 | 63 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1946 | 88 | #892 | — | — |
| 1945 | 71 | #900 | — | — |
| 1944 | 70 | #924 | — | — |
| 1943 | 77 | #894 | — | — |
| 1942 | 108 | #719 | — | — |
| 1941 | 119 | #650 | — | — |
| 1940 | 114 | #654 | — | — |
| 1939 | 93 | #711 | — | — |
| 1938 | 134 | #599 | — | — |
| 1937 | 132 | #589 | — | — |
| 1936 | 127 | #589 | — | — |
| 1935 | 149 | #530 | — | — |
| 1934 | 156 | #518 | — | — |
| 1933 | 165 | #498 | — | — |
| 1932 | 160 | #520 | — | — |
| 1931 | 169 | #496 | — | — |
| 1930 | 160 | #538 | — | — |
| 1929 | 176 | #513 | — | — |
| 1928 | 165 | #542 | — | — |
| 1927 | 195 | #501 | — | — |
| 1926 | 194 | #503 | — | — |
| 1925 | 173 | #546 | — | — |
| 1924 | 162 | #577 | — | — |
| 1923 | 148 | #598 | — | — |
| 1922 | 199 | #490 | — | — |
| 1921 | 193 | #508 | — | — |
| 1920 | 174 | #540 | — | — |
| 1919 | 179 | #506 | — | — |
| 1918 | 161 | #560 | — | — |
| 1917 | 129 | #602 | — | — |
| 1916 | 142 | #564 | — | — |
| 1915 | 143 | #530 | — | — |
| 1914 | 101 | #560 | — | — |
| 1913 | 74 | #605 | — | — |
| 1912 | 54 | #687 | — | — |
| 1911 | 39 | #703 | — | — |
| 1910 | 53 | #569 | — | — |
| 1909 | 43 | #593 | — | — |
| 1908 | 25 | #786 | — | — |
| 1907 | 20 | #870 | — | — |
| 1906 | 18 | #894 | — | — |
| 1905 | 25 | #731 | — | — |
| 1904 | 17 | #908 | — | — |
| 1903 | 15 | #928 | — | — |
| 1902 | 20 | #795 | — | — |
| 1901 | 19 | #768 | — | — |
| 1900 | 22 | #800 | — | — |
| 1899 | 12 | #979 | — | — |
| 1898 | 14 | #960 | — | — |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1896 | 12 | #994 | — | — |
| 1895 | 22 | #683 | — | — |
| 1894 | 13 | #903 | — | — |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,090 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).