Verlaine
Verlaine was last recorded in 1964, when 5 babies were given it; 115 Americans have been recorded with it between 1922 and 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verlaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Verlaine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,769, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1940, the peak
Verlaine peaked in 1940, when 15 girls were given it, #2,198 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 5 | #7,769 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,350 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,992 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,266 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,929 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,790 | 5.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,937 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,198 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,410 | 7.3 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,818 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 5 | #4,929 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,824 | 6.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,693 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,764 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,569 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,982 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,992 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Verlaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Verlaine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Verlaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verlaine, and how old are they?
An estimated 39 Americans named Verlaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 183 people named Verlaine (174 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 55 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,077 babies since 1880, Verlaine is the third most given (3.7% 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.
More about Verlaine and names like it
- Compare Verlaine and VerleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sVerlaine peaked in 1940.
- The top names of 1940The year the most babies were named Verlaine.
- Names starting with VMost given first.