Vernal — boys' name

What the Data Says About Vernal

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,788 babies named Vernal between 1894 and 2005, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Vernal currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 49 babies received it in a single year. Vernal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 370 additional births since 1892.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vernal performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 390 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Vernal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Idaho and Kansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Vernal in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vernal 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 1,788 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.