Verne
Verne is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 306th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1919167 births
- Best rank
- #306in 1893
- Since 1880
- 6,719people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,841 boys have been named Verne in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 167 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 167 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 76 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 878 girls have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Verne | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 115 | |
| 1890s | 213 | |
| 1900s | 220 | |
| 1910s | 996 | |
| 1920s | 1,411 | |
| 1930s | 939 | |
| 1940s | 754 | |
| 1950s | 670 | |
| 1960s | 324 | |
| 1970s | 125 | |
| 1980s | 69 | |
| 1990s | 5 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Verne was the 457th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Verne
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Earlpeak 1921
- Vernpeak 1920
- Floydpeak 1926
- Earlepeak 1918
- Arliepeak 1921
- Clarencepeak 1921
- Burrellpeak 1919
- Clydepeak 1920
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.