Verenice
Verenice was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,853 among girls’ names; 1,625 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Verenice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 22 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verenice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Verenice?
#11,853 among girls’ names, 2025
Verenice fell from #9,444 in 2015 to #11,853 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 5.0 per million.
86 babies in 1993, the peak
Verenice peaked in 1993, when 86 girls were given it, #1,736 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,853 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,070 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,261 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,482 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,913 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,431 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,558 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,651 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,800 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,444 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 16 | #7,614 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,203 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,121 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,832 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,617 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,667 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,932 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,782 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,173 | 27.9 |
| 2005 | 54 | #3,002 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,959 | 29.4 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,993 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,441 | 36.7 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,324 | 38.3 |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,047 | 44.6 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,253 | 37.8 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,393 | 33.4 |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,445 | 31.0 |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,878 | 44.5 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,077 | 37.5 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,347 | 31.4 |
| 1993 | 86 | #1,736 | 47.5 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,269 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,541 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,339 | 28.4 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,244 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,681 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,416 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,272 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,120 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,213 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,471 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,159 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,620 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,238 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,298 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,926 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,614 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,148 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,881 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,755 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,271 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Verenice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Verenice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Verenice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verenice, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,625 Americans ever recorded as Verenice. The median Verenice alive today is 28 years old; half are between 22 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,868 people named Verenice (1,868 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,561 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 639 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 772 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 117 |
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 Verenice born?
The states with the most babies named Verenice are California, Texas and Illinois, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 747 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Texas | 203 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 49 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Nevada | 6 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Verenice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Verenice is most over-represented in California: since 1972 it was given 3.3 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 Verenice 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 234,922 babies since 1880, Verenice is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 738 babies (1.1%), the second most given that year.
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 Verenice
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 Verenice and names like it
- Compare Verenice and VeronicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sVerenice peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Verenice since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Verenice.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Verenice alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.