Vernia
Vernia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 963rd, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191740 births
- Best rank
- #963in 1904
- Since 1885
- 1,288people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,288 girls have been named Vernia in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 40 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 40 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1917, its biggest year
Vernia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Vernia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Evelenapeak 1924
- Vertapeak 1922
- Margaretepeak 1918
- Margrettpeak 1924
- Virgiapeak 1919
- Naomapeak 1924
- Julepeak 1919
- Berylpeak 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.