Verl — boys' name

What the Data Says About Verl

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,517 babies named Verl between 1895 and 1987, spanning 93 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Verl currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1987. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 86 babies received it in a single year. Verl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 211 additional births since 1898.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Verl performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 689 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Verl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 299 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Idaho and Kansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Verl in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Verl in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,517 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.