Meaning not yet researched.
Verna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #117 in 1906.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #117 in 1906; #3,513 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Verna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,513 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1906, at #117.
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Verna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 girls in 2025. Peak: #117 in 1906 · most girls in one year: 1,873 (1918).
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Verna, making it the 3,513th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,503 places from #5,016 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 27 girls named Verna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #117, reached in 1906. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,873, in 1918. For comparison, it was #5,445 in 2015 and #292 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Verna in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 46 babies with the name. In all, 69,638 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 16,419 babies named Verna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 329 US girls were named Verna; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Virna, Vernae and Vernay 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Virna (194), Vernae (49), Vernay (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 Verna in the open dataset we use.
Verna is listed as a nickname for Laverne.
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 | 44 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,016 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,242 | — | — |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,961 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,392 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,641 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,152 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,999 | — | — |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,142 | — | — |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,655 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,445 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,996 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,532 | — | — |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,392 | — | — |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,908 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,370 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #8,032 | — | — |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,170 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,366 | — | — |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,823 | — | — |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,488 | — | — |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,211 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,612 | — | — |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,884 | — | — |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,797 | — | — |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,810 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,876 | — | — |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,877 | — | — |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,678 | — | — |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1982 | 79 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1978 | 74 | #1,522 | 5 | #6,725 |
| 1977 | 77 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1976 | 99 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1974 | 106 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1973 | 117 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1972 | 149 | #868 | — | — |
| 1971 | 177 | #797 | — | — |
| 1970 | 195 | #757 | 7 | #4,210 |
| 1969 | 213 | #683 | — | — |
| 1968 | 188 | #711 | 5 | #4,723 |
| 1967 | 274 | #576 | — | — |
| 1966 | 286 | #564 | — | — |
| 1965 | 274 | #578 | — | — |
| 1964 | 354 | #522 | 6 | #4,022 |
| 1963 | 359 | #514 | 7 | #3,632 |
| 1962 | 410 | #480 | 5 | #4,607 |
| 1961 | 465 | #454 | 6 | #4,042 |
| 1960 | 532 | #421 | — | — |
| 1959 | 509 | #420 | 5 | #4,546 |
| 1958 | 546 | #392 | — | — |
| 1957 | 605 | #369 | 8 | #3,248 |
| 1956 | 606 | #355 | 6 | #3,920 |
| 1955 | 617 | #346 | 10 | #2,752 |
| 1954 | 584 | #358 | — | — |
| 1953 | 652 | #320 | 5 | #4,307 |
| 1952 | 655 | #316 | — | — |
| 1951 | 667 | #303 | 10 | #2,653 |
| 1950 | 719 | #292 | 6 | #3,663 |
| 1949 | 736 | #284 | 9 | #2,794 |
| 1948 | 681 | #293 | 5 | #4,174 |
| 1947 | 777 | #276 | 5 | #4,238 |
| 1946 | 742 | #265 | — | — |
| 1945 | 719 | #253 | 8 | #2,736 |
| 1944 | 734 | #243 | 5 | #3,877 |
| 1943 | 881 | #222 | 8 | #2,952 |
| 1942 | 871 | #222 | 5 | #4,019 |
| 1941 | 862 | #207 | — | — |
| 1940 | 865 | #204 | 9 | #2,661 |
| 1939 | 927 | #190 | — | — |
| 1938 | 927 | #197 | 9 | #2,641 |
| 1937 | 934 | #192 | 14 | #1,986 |
| 1936 | 950 | #189 | 8 | #2,842 |
| 1935 | 979 | #181 | 7 | #3,242 |
| 1934 | 1,040 | #177 | 10 | #2,553 |
| 1933 | 1,078 | #168 | 12 | #2,208 |
| 1932 | 1,175 | #165 | 15 | #1,987 |
| 1931 | 1,213 | #154 | 14 | #2,094 |
| 1930 | 1,359 | #151 | 11 | #2,600 |
| 1929 | 1,342 | #156 | 12 | #2,446 |
| 1928 | 1,458 | #152 | 13 | #2,382 |
| 1927 | 1,535 | #153 | 17 | #2,026 |
| 1926 | 1,586 | #152 | 20 | #1,784 |
| 1925 | 1,613 | #153 | 15 | #2,183 |
| 1924 | 1,661 | #153 | 12 | #2,632 |
| 1923 | 1,713 | #146 | 11 | #2,764 |
| 1922 | 1,693 | #146 | 21 | #1,760 |
| 1921 | 1,813 | #141 | 18 | #1,976 |
| 1920 | 1,851 | #135 | 15 | #2,225 |
| 1919 | 1,816 | #131 | 19 | #1,805 |
| 1918 | 1,873 | #125 | 12 | #2,529 |
| 1917 | 1,799 | #124 | 5 | #4,565 |
| 1916 | 1,713 | #125 | 16 | #1,942 |
| 1915 | 1,570 | #126 | 14 | #2,060 |
| 1914 | 1,226 | #125 | 9 | #2,444 |
| 1913 | 1,038 | #126 | 8 | #2,263 |
| 1912 | 914 | #126 | — | — |
| 1911 | 639 | #132 | 7 | #1,525 |
| 1910 | 626 | #130 | — | — |
| 1909 | 582 | #122 | 6 | #1,431 |
| 1908 | 549 | #125 | — | — |
| 1907 | 538 | #123 | — | — |
| 1906 | 533 | #117 | — | — |
| 1905 | 488 | #129 | 6 | #1,224 |
| 1904 | 429 | #137 | 5 | #1,388 |
| 1903 | 424 | #131 | — | — |
| 1902 | 436 | #129 | 8 | #924 |
| 1901 | 361 | #138 | 6 | #1,052 |
| 1900 | 412 | #143 | — | — |
| 1899 | 329 | #143 | — | — |
| 1898 | 410 | #129 | — | — |
| 1897 | 350 | #138 | — | — |
| 1896 | 326 | #144 | — | — |
| 1895 | 326 | #140 | — | — |
| 1894 | 310 | #138 | — | — |
| 1893 | 292 | #142 | — | — |
| 1892 | 246 | #157 | — | — |
| 1891 | 203 | #167 | — | — |
| 1890 | 244 | #145 | — | — |
| 1889 | 174 | #169 | — | — |
| 1888 | 165 | #175 | — | — |
| 1887 | 129 | #177 | — | — |
| 1886 | 134 | #174 | — | — |
| 1885 | 108 | #177 | — | — |
| 1884 | 87 | #200 | — | — |
| 1883 | 103 | #165 | 5 | #1,028 |
| 1882 | 76 | #182 | — | — |
| 1881 | 30 | #288 | — | — |
| 1880 | 46 | #231 | — | — |
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).