Vernell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Vernell

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,124 babies named Vernell between 1897 and 1999, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vernell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 178 babies received it in a single year. Vernell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,344 additional births since 1910.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vernell performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 1,588 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Vernell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 828 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Vernell in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vernell 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 7,124 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.