Vernal
Vernal is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 914th, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191649 births
- Best rank
- #914in 1916
- Since 1894
- 2,158people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,788 boys have been named Vernal in the United States since 1894, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 49 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 49 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Vernal is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are girls (370), most of them born around 1920.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Vernal | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 17 | |
| 1900s | 26 | |
| 1910s | 279 | |
| 1920s | 390 | |
| 1930s | 336 | |
| 1940s | 255 | |
| 1950s | 177 | |
| 1960s | 140 | |
| 1970s | 81 | |
| 1980s | 64 | |
| 1990s | 13 | |
| 2000s | 10 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Vernal was the 914th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Vernal
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arvilpeak 1924
- Weldonpeak 1920
- Giffordpeak 1920
- Elwynpeak 1924
- Foypeak 1921
- Norwoodpeak 1921
- Carlylepeak 1918
- Irbypeak 1918
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.