Verlee — girls' name
573 babies named Verlee in U.S. Social Security records since 1911, with the highest year being 1930. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Verlee was born in this single decade.
24 babies were named Verlee in 1930 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Verlee
The Social Security Administration has registered 573 babies named Verlee between 1911 and 1956, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Verlee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1956. The name reached its historical peak in 1930, when 24 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Verlee performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 176 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Verlee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Iowa, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Verlee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Verlee 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 573 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.
Verlee at a glance
Last recorded 1956Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Verlee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1956–1911
- Peak year (1930)
- 24
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1956.
573 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1930 with 24 births in a single year.
Verlee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- 176 births that decade — 31% of Verlee's all-time total
Verlee decade highlights
- Peak decade 176 births
- Runner-up 162 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1930s was Verlee's strongest decade
176 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Verlee by state
Where Verlee concentrates geographically — total births since 1911
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Iowa | | 18 | 3.1% |
18 of 573 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Iowa 3.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Iowa accounts for 3.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1911–1956 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.