Verla
Verla is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 490th, in 1922.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1922199 births
- Best rank
- #490in 1922
- Since 1890
- 6,190people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,190 girls have been named Verla in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 199 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 199 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 52 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Verla | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 92 | |
| 1900s | 224 | |
| 1910s | 1,075 | |
| 1920s | 1,779 | |
| 1930s | 1,445 | |
| 1940s | 860 | |
| 1950s | 465 | |
| 1960s | 175 | |
| 1970s | 61 | |
| 1980s | 14 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Verla was the 490th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Verla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lorinepeak 1922
- Laruepeak 1920
- Ardellpeak 1922
- Wilmapeak 1925
- Alenepeak 1920
- Lavernapeak 1920
- Dorothypeak 1924
- Marianpeak 1924
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.