Vernon
Vernon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 112 births. Its best rank was 65th, in 1919–1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1120.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19203,144 births
- Best rank
- #65first in 1919
- Since 1880
- 148,252people given the name
The story in the numbers
146,276 boys have been named Vernon in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 3,144 births — 0.30% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 112 births in 2024, against 3,144 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 124 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 32 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,976 girls have also been given it, 1.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Vernon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 636 | |
| 1890s | 1,215 | |
| 1900s | 2,053 | |
| 1910s | 16,967 | |
| 1920s | 29,432 | |
| 1930s | 22,196 | |
| 1940s | 20,038 | |
| 1950s | 20,134 | |
| 1960s | 14,410 | |
| 1970s | 7,722 | |
| 1980s | 5,376 | |
| 1990s | 2,839 | |
| 2000s | 1,557 | |
| 2010s | 1,159 | |
| 2020s | 542 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Vernon was the 65th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Vernon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arnoldpeak 1924
- Elroypeak 1922
- Bernardpeak 1924
- Wilbertpeak 1922
- Lylepeak 1922
- Rolandpeak 1924
- Weldonpeak 1920
- Leonardpeak 1921
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.