Verla — girls' name

What the Data Says About Verla

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,190 babies named Verla between 1890 and 1983, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Verla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1983. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 199 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Verla performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,779 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Verla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Iowa, which accounts for 428 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Idaho. In total, SSA state-level files list Verla in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Verla 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 6,190 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.