Verdie
Verdie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 496th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191879 births
- Best rank
- #496in 1891
- Since 1880
- 2,820people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,614 girls have been named Verdie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 79 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 79 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 206 boys have also been given it, 7.3% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Verdie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 97 | |
| 1890s | 245 | |
| 1900s | 330 | |
| 1910s | 540 | |
| 1920s | 592 | |
| 1930s | 362 | |
| 1940s | 254 | |
| 1950s | 143 | |
| 1960s | 39 | |
| 1970s | 12 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Verdie was the 808th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Verdie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Virgiepeak 1918
- Omapeak 1916
- Maudiepeak 1918
- Vestapeak 1918
- Estapeak 1920
- Beulahpeak 1916
- Essiepeak 1921
- Oleviapeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.