Verne — boys' name

What the Data Says About Verne

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,841 babies named Verne between 1880 and 1990, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Verne currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1990. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 167 babies received it in a single year. Verne is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 878 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Verne performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,411 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Verne shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 411 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Iowa. In total, SSA state-level files list Verne in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Verne 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 5,841 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.