Verl
Verl was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 2,728 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Verl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,084, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
96 babies in 1918, the peak
Verl peaked in 1918, when 96 babies were given it (86 boys, #673 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #8,084 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,329 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,721 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,203 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,479 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,968 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,966 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,507 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,301 | 8.4 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,952 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 9 | #2,970 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,265 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,108 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,108 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,112 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,235 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,201 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,030 | 8.0 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,639 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 26 | #1,578 | 12.1 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,718 | 10.4 |
| 1955 | 25 | #1,570 | 12.1 |
| 1954 | 23 | #1,624 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,404 | 15.2 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,457 | 14.4 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,517 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,497 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,202 | 20.3 |
| 1948 | 38 | #1,171 | 21.7 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,269 | 18.6 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,435 | 15.4 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,071 | 27.5 |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,134 | 25.7 |
| 1943 | 51 | #941 | 35.7 |
| 1942 | 45 | #1,004 | 32.6 |
| 1941 | 49 | #916 | 39.9 |
| 1940 | 46 | #949 | 39.7 |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,049 | 34.3 |
| 1938 | 49 | #910 | 44.2 |
| 1937 | 46 | #930 | 43.1 |
| 1936 | 32 | #1,180 | 30.9 |
| 1935 | 46 | #938 | 44.2 |
| 1934 | 52 | #879 | 50.4 |
| 1933 | 53 | #859 | 53.5 |
| 1932 | 51 | #913 | 48.8 |
| 1931 | 59 | #823 | 56.7 |
| 1930 | 43 | #1,067 | 39.2 |
| 1929 | 60 | #855 | 55.8 |
| 1928 | 67 | #805 | 60.5 |
| 1927 | 70 | #798 | 62.1 |
| 1926 | 77 | #730 | 69.3 |
| 1925 | 65 | #831 | 58.2 |
| 1924 | 68 | #822 | 60.0 |
| 1923 | 67 | #833 | 61.1 |
| 1922 | 74 | #777 | 68.0 |
| 1921 | 64 | #876 | 58.1 |
| 1920 | 77 | #753 | 72.3 |
| 1919 | 80 | #703 | 81.6 |
| 1918 | 86 | #673 | 84.9 |
| 1917 | 79 | #679 | 85.4 |
| 1916 | 56 | #839 | 62.9 |
| 1915 | 69 | #714 | 81.3 |
| 1914 | 35 | #948 | 53.5 |
| 1913 | 38 | #776 | 74.1 |
| 1912 | 27 | #873 | 62.8 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,112 | 48.7 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,186 | 46.3 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,016 | 61.0 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,363 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,534 | 34.1 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,084 | 52.9 |
| 1904 | 8 | #959 | 62.4 |
| 1903 | 9 | #842 | 75.5 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,074 | 51.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Verl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,728 Americans recorded as Verl, 8% are girls and 92% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Verl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verl, and how old are they?
An estimated 540 Americans named Verl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 65 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 841 people named Verl (60 women and girls, 781 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 744 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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 Verl born?
The states with the most babies named Verl are Utah, Idaho and Kansas, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah and Idaho and Kansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 304 | not ranked | 19.1× |
| Idaho | 84 | not ranked | 7.0× |
| Kansas | 81 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Iowa | 63 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 39 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Verl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Verl is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 19.1 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 boys’ 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 Verl 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,373 babies since 1880, Verl is the most given (62% 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 Verl
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 Verl and names like it
- Compare Verl and VerylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVerl peaked in 1918.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Verl since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Verl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Verl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.