Verline
Verline was last recorded in 1971, when 5 babies were given it; 1,088 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Verline?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,600, in 1971; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1933, the peak
Verline peaked in 1933, when 38 girls were given it, #1,157 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 | #9,600 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,594 | 4.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,581 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,744 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,880 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,536 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,313 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,152 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,609 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,228 | 7.5 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 15 | #3,144 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,620 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,720 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,709 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,802 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,071 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,804 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,334 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,067 | 13.4 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,253 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,986 | 14.1 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,149 | 12.7 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,232 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,607 | 20.3 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,622 | 20.1 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,975 | 14.8 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,693 | 19.0 |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,474 | 24.5 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,289 | 31.0 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,502 | 23.6 |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,354 | 28.2 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,320 | 29.8 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,542 | 22.9 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,479 | 24.9 |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,157 | 37.7 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,487 | 25.3 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,418 | 26.3 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,566 | 23.1 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,366 | 28.7 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,779 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,724 | 21.0 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,880 | 18.6 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,789 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,352 | 29.6 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,834 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,644 | 22.5 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,572 | 23.5 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,457 | 12.5 |
| 1919 | 18 | #2,055 | 15.9 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,957 | 17.3 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,071 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,237 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,519 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,422 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,161 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,345 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Verline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Verline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Verline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verline, and how old are they?
An estimated 374 Americans named Verline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 70 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 499 people named Verline (489 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 500 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,426 babies since 1880, Verline is the second most given (32% 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 Verline
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 Verline and names like it
- Compare Verline and VerleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sVerline peaked in 1933.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Verline since 1910.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Verline.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Verline alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.