Verlyn
Verlyn was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 1,920 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Verlyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,741, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
71 babies in 1934, the peak
Verlyn peaked in 1934, when 71 babies were given it (51 boys, #886 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,741 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #7,292 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,554 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #6,304 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,418 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,387 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 12 | #2,564 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 8 | #3,218 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 9 | #2,972 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 12 | #2,466 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | under 5 | 13 | #2,401 | |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,278 | 13 | #2,408 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 14 | #2,271 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 16 | #2,143 | |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,357 | 15 | #2,202 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,215 | 16 | #2,107 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,180 | 19 | #1,889 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,350 | 28 | #1,508 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,815 | 24 | #1,639 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,563 | 34 | #1,310 |
| 1954 | under 5 | 28 | #1,463 | |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,942 | 29 | #1,425 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,106 | 30 | #1,401 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,805 | 22 | #1,641 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,294 | 28 | #1,390 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,643 | 22 | #1,612 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,187 | 23 | #1,557 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,892 | 20 | #1,730 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,206 | 27 | #1,378 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,372 | 24 | #1,374 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,365 | 24 | #1,395 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,333 | 24 | #1,458 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,308 | 25 | #1,418 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,835 | 24 | #1,409 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,838 | 32 | #1,207 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,293 | 31 | #1,193 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,571 | 32 | #1,169 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,309 | 42 | #981 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,378 | 45 | #923 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,996 | 44 | #968 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,768 | 51 | #886 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,859 | 42 | #991 |
| 1932 | 10 | #3,036 | 46 | #979 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,306 | 43 | #1,028 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,417 | 51 | #957 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,578 | 32 | #1,268 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,615 | 56 | #901 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,424 | 43 | #1,096 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,560 | 39 | #1,158 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,928 | 19 | #1,866 |
| 1924 | 6 | #5,013 | 29 | #1,412 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,110 | 24 | #1,587 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,380 | 16 | #2,136 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,431 | 19 | #1,897 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,721 | 16 | #2,123 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,510 | 10 | #2,860 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,843 | 9 | #3,085 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,865 | 12 | #2,415 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,113 | 13 | #2,250 |
| 1915 | under 5 | 11 | #2,449 | |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,165 | 8 | #2,638 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,954 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Verlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,920 Americans recorded as Verlyn, 25% are girls and 75% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Verlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verlyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 609 Americans named Verlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 68 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,040 people named Verlyn (341 women and girls, 699 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 816 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above 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).
Where are babies named Verlyn born?
The states with the most babies named Verlyn are Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Iowa and Wisconsin and Minnesota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 166 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| Wisconsin | 132 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Minnesota | 64 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| South Dakota | 63 | not ranked | 5.7× |
| Kansas | 19 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Nebraska | 12 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Verlyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Verlyn is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1912 it was given 4.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Verlyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,372 babies since 1880, Verlyn is the third most given (23% 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 Verlyn
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 Verlyn and names like it
- Compare Verlyn and VerlinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sVerlyn peaked in 1934.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Verlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1934The year the most babies were named Verlyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Verlyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.