Vernell
Vernell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 479th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1924178 births
- Best rank
- #479in 1935
- Since 1897
- 10,468people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,124 girls have been named Vernell in the United States since 1897, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 178 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 178 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1930s alone account for 22%. It has spent 43 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Vernell is used for both sexes: 32% of its bearers are boys (3,344), most of them born around 1954.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Vernell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 60 | |
| 1910s | 510 | |
| 1920s | 1,445 | |
| 1930s | 1,588 | |
| 1940s | 1,340 | |
| 1950s | 1,200 | |
| 1960s | 617 | |
| 1970s | 228 | |
| 1980s | 101 | |
| 1990s | 30 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Vernell was the 545th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Vernell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Verdellpeak 1932
- Arletapeak 1932
- Bernapeak 1929
- Willenepeak 1929
- Phyllispeak 1947
- Eloispeak 1935
- Lupepeak 1927
- Jeanpeak 1927
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.