Verda
Verda was last recorded in 1999, when 5 babies were given it; 8,069 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Verda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 68 and 86.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Verda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,832, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
283 babies in 1918, the peak
Verda peaked in 1918, when 283 girls were given it, #390 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #16,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,367 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,013 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,077 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,269 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,570 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,199 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,754 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,293 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,528 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 8 | #6,342 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,613 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,051 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,475 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,661 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,340 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,235 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,696 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,460 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,832 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,058 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,231 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,206 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,894 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,637 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,765 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 54 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 52 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 61 | #1,172 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 56 | #1,221 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 60 | #1,167 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 61 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 61 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 68 | #944 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 81 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 79 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 81 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 75 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 86 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 100 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1937 | 94 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 117 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 128 | #570 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 124 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1933 | 119 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 126 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 141 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 162 | #535 | 0.14 |
| 1929 | 166 | #528 | 0.15 |
| 1928 | 173 | #530 | 0.15 |
| 1927 | 185 | #518 | 0.16 |
| 1926 | 196 | #499 | 0.17 |
| 1925 | 198 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1924 | 243 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1923 | 195 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1922 | 225 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1921 | 268 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1920 | 271 | #403 | 0.23 |
| 1919 | 283 | #384 | 0.25 |
| 1918 | 283 | #390 | 0.24 |
| 1917 | 245 | #404 | 0.23 |
| 1916 | 213 | #435 | 0.20 |
| 1915 | 226 | #400 | 0.23 |
| 1914 | 176 | #397 | 0.23 |
| 1913 | 144 | #411 | 0.23 |
| 1912 | 138 | #394 | 0.25 |
| 1911 | 96 | #413 | 0.23 |
| 1910 | 113 | #367 | 0.28 |
| 1909 | 78 | #417 | 0.22 |
| 1908 | 84 | #398 | 0.25 |
| 1907 | 75 | #411 | 0.24 |
| 1906 | 79 | #387 | 0.27 |
| 1905 | 71 | #405 | 0.24 |
| 1904 | 80 | #370 | 0.29 |
| 1903 | 77 | #367 | 0.29 |
| 1902 | 78 | #365 | 0.30 |
| 1901 | 74 | #355 | 0.31 |
| 1900 | 69 | #401 | 0.23 |
| 1899 | 68 | #357 | 0.29 |
| 1898 | 79 | #351 | 0.31 |
| 1897 | 56 | #392 | 0.24 |
| 1896 | 65 | #361 | 0.27 |
| 1895 | 48 | #409 | 0.21 |
| 1894 | 54 | #385 | 0.24 |
| 1893 | 40 | #432 | 0.19 |
| 1892 | 43 | #408 | 0.20 |
| 1891 | 40 | #394 | 0.22 |
| 1890 | 36 | #428 | 0.19 |
| 1889 | 31 | #438 | 0.17 |
| 1888 | 26 | #502 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 19 | #523 | 0.13 |
| 1886 | 18 | #538 | 0.12 |
| 1885 | 17 | #541 | 0.13 |
| 1884 | 14 | #580 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 19 | #449 | 0.17 |
| 1882 | 14 | #504 | 0.13 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Verda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Verda has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 99 years of records.
Girls and boys named Verda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verda, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 15% of the 8,069 Americans ever recorded as Verda. The median Verda alive today is 78 years old; half are between 68 and 86.
The 2020 Census counted 1,798 people named Verda (1,782 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,781 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 486 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 561 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 143 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 18 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Verda born?
The states with the most babies named Verda are Texas, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 460 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 280 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 277 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Kentucky | 269 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Iowa | 260 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Kansas | 239 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 235 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 219 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 211 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 209 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Verda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Verda is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 4.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Verda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 11,553 babies since 1880, Verda is the most given (70% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Verda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Verda and names like it
- Compare Verda and VerdieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVerda peaked in 1918.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Verda since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Verda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Verda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.