Verlyn — boys' name

What the Data Says About Verlyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,432 babies named Verlyn between 1914 and 1997, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Verlyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1928, when 56 babies received it in a single year. Verlyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 488 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Verlyn performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 427 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Verlyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Iowa, which accounts for 166 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Wisconsin and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Verlyn in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Verlyn 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 1,432 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.