Meaning not yet researched.
Vern: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #273 in 1895.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #273 in 1895; #10,607 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vern in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,607 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1895, at #273.
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Vern: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #273 in 1895 · most boys in one year: 274 (1920).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Vern, making it the 10,607th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,646 places from #12,253 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 6 boys named Vern in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #273, reached in 1895. The most boys given the name in a single year was 274, in 1920. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #574 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vern in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 19 babies. In all, 11,982 US babies have been given the name, 4.0% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,477 babies named Vern.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 42 US boys were named Vern; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Verne (6,719 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Vern in the open dataset we use.
Vern is listed as a nickname for Vernon.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #10,607 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #12,253 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,690 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,764 |
| 2021 | — | — | 6 | #12,051 |
| 2016 | — | — | 7 | #10,666 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,612 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,738 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #10,096 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,826 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,606 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,488 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,377 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #11,536 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #11,246 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,585 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,474 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,760 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,280 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,211 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,850 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,467 |
| 1990 | — | — | 17 | #3,595 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #3,086 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,698 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,512 |
| 1986 | — | — | 30 | #2,005 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,421 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,523 |
| 1983 | — | — | 29 | #1,902 |
| 1982 | — | — | 26 | #2,105 |
| 1981 | — | — | 20 | #2,490 |
| 1980 | — | — | 19 | #2,612 |
| 1979 | — | — | 22 | #2,307 |
| 1978 | — | — | 32 | #1,715 |
| 1977 | — | — | 32 | #1,706 |
| 1976 | — | — | 35 | #1,570 |
| 1975 | — | — | 37 | #1,475 |
| 1974 | — | — | 34 | #1,519 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,734 |
| 1972 | — | — | 49 | #1,176 |
| 1971 | — | — | 35 | #1,465 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,964 | 65 | #1,015 |
| 1969 | — | — | 46 | #1,167 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,991 | 63 | #918 |
| 1967 | — | — | 66 | #891 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,584 | 83 | #804 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,511 | 95 | #762 |
| 1964 | — | — | 103 | #757 |
| 1963 | — | — | 119 | #721 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,540 | 127 | #688 |
| 1961 | — | — | 149 | #644 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,279 | 133 | #682 |
| 1959 | 8 | #5,016 | 163 | #606 |
| 1958 | — | — | 135 | #663 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,900 | 161 | #605 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,930 | 174 | #578 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,689 | 166 | #574 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,261 | 207 | #503 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,642 | 170 | #543 |
| 1952 | — | — | 143 | #585 |
| 1951 | — | — | 152 | #554 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,298 | 140 | #574 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,227 | 146 | #559 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,631 | 191 | #483 |
| 1947 | — | — | 159 | #534 |
| 1946 | — | — | 160 | #509 |
| 1945 | 7 | #4,007 | 147 | #495 |
| 1944 | — | — | 165 | #473 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,336 | 153 | #504 |
| 1942 | — | — | 158 | #490 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,389 | 147 | #484 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,324 | 165 | #452 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,413 | 149 | #470 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,829 | 160 | #458 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,420 | 153 | #455 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,846 | 153 | #457 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,430 | 153 | #459 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,726 | 175 | #426 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,100 | 162 | #434 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,381 | 155 | #460 |
| 1931 | — | — | 201 | #398 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,647 | 222 | #381 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,125 | 183 | #437 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,423 | 207 | #417 |
| 1927 | 11 | #3,046 | 220 | #406 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,465 | 221 | #402 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,348 | 241 | #387 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,305 | 243 | #385 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,907 | 241 | #382 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,768 | 267 | #368 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,502 | 260 | #377 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,934 | 274 | #360 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,787 | 231 | #385 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,098 | 244 | #383 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,685 | 200 | #401 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,490 | 210 | #383 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,378 | 212 | #368 |
| 1914 | 13 | #2,006 | 155 | #382 |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,024 | 121 | #386 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,132 | 87 | #420 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,181 | 44 | #444 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,385 | 34 | #479 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,201 | 44 | #356 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,851 | 44 | #345 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,378 | 41 | #340 |
| 1906 | — | — | 40 | #328 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,915 | 33 | #364 |
| 1904 | — | — | 27 | #408 |
| 1903 | — | — | 28 | #369 |
| 1902 | — | — | 30 | #366 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,667 | 32 | #317 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,716 | 36 | #374 |
| 1899 | — | — | 30 | #330 |
| 1898 | — | — | 34 | #334 |
| 1897 | — | — | 27 | #366 |
| 1896 | — | — | 36 | #314 |
| 1895 | — | — | 43 | #273 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,475 | 34 | #305 |
| 1893 | — | — | 40 | #278 |
| 1892 | — | — | 41 | #288 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,200 | 33 | #290 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,521 | 32 | #311 |
| 1889 | — | — | 29 | #331 |
| 1888 | — | — | 28 | #352 |
| 1887 | — | — | 28 | #320 |
| 1886 | — | — | 22 | #382 |
| 1885 | — | — | 29 | #317 |
| 1884 | — | — | 20 | #415 |
| 1883 | — | — | 23 | #358 |
| 1882 | — | — | 28 | #330 |
| 1881 | — | — | 18 | #414 |
| 1880 | — | — | 19 | #400 |
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).