Verdie
Verdie was last recorded in 1972, when 6 babies were given it; 2,820 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verdie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Verdie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,246, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
87 babies in 1918, the peak
Verdie peaked in 1918, when 87 babies were given it (79 girls, #808 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 | #8,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,286 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,988 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #4,008 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,540 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,674 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,209 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,373 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,191 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 16 | #3,041 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,089 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,950 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,468 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,175 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,431 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,252 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,277 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,540 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,800 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,383 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,843 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,344 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 41 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 36 | #1,194 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 39 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 45 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 47 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 41 | #1,172 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 58 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,126 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 48 | #1,095 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 55 | #1,018 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 72 | #892 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 67 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 59 | #976 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 73 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 72 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 66 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 79 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 49 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 61 | #876 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 60 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 60 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 47 | #775 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 38 | #818 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 35 | #740 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 45 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 37 | #661 | 0.11 |
| 1908 | 38 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1907 | 34 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1906 | 35 | #609 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 30 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1904 | 28 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 36 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1902 | 36 | #544 | 0.14 |
| 1901 | 24 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 32 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 29 | #577 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 24 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 21 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 33 | #527 | 0.14 |
| 1895 | 24 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1894 | 24 | #607 | 0.11 |
| 1893 | 18 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 24 | #577 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 28 | #496 | 0.15 |
| 1890 | 20 | #598 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 15 | #686 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 10 | #890 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 11 | #728 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 15 | #605 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 12 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1884 | 14 | #581 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 6 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 6 | #824 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 8 | #674 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Verdie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,820 Americans recorded as Verdie, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Verdie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verdie, and how old are they?
An estimated 400 Americans named Verdie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 71 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 571 people named Verdie (491 women and girls, 80 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 584 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 Verdie born?
The states with the most babies named Verdie are Texas, Louisiana and Georgia, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 160 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 145 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Georgia | 117 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 89 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 59 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 52 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 41 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Arkansas | 34 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 29 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Verdie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Verdie is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 3.1 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 Verdie 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, Verdie is the second most given (24% 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 Verdie
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 Verdie and names like it
- Compare Verdie and VerdaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVerdie peaked in 1918.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Verdie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Verdie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Verdie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.