Vernelle
Vernelle was last recorded in 1974, when 6 babies were given it; 1,250 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vernelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vernelle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,730, in 1974; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
69 babies in 1924, the peak
Vernelle peaked in 1924, when 69 girls were given it, #918 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | #8,730 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,758 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,595 | 4.1 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,776 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,953 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,790 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,776 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,881 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,250 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,822 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 15 | #3,352 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,614 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,378 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,298 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,816 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,720 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,952 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,096 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,189 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,685 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,335 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 24 | #2,010 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 24 | #2,003 | 14.1 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,143 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 22 | #2,019 | 14.0 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,988 | 14.5 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,800 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,245 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,207 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,803 | 17.4 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,790 | 18.4 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,793 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,217 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,491 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,590 | 22.1 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,326 | 29.6 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,549 | 23.0 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,152 | 14.9 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,679 | 20.6 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,457 | 25.4 |
| 1930 | 36 | #1,272 | 32.0 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,760 | 19.7 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,364 | 28.6 |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,302 | 31.9 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,352 | 29.5 |
| 1925 | 43 | #1,194 | 35.3 |
| 1924 | 69 | #918 | 55.2 |
| 1923 | 49 | #1,099 | 40.6 |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,307 | 30.8 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,539 | 24.3 |
| 1920 | 41 | #1,204 | 34.2 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,420 | 27.4 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,599 | 22.5 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,842 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,862 | 18.2 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,736 | 20.3 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,734 | 21.0 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,318 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,972 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,447 | 14.3 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,948 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,090 | 17.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,916 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,151 | 18.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vernelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vernelle has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 64 years of records.
Girls and boys named Vernelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vernelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 355 Americans named Vernelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 68 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 500 people named Vernelle (467 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 476 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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 Vernelle born?
The states with the most babies named Vernelle are Virginia, South Carolina and Texas, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 110 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| South Carolina | 90 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Texas | 56 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Nebraska | 22 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 21 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Vernelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vernelle is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1910 it was given 3.6 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 girls’ 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 Vernelle 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,312 babies since 1880, Vernelle is the most given (95% 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 Vernelle
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 Vernelle and names like it
- Compare Vernelle and VernellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sVernelle peaked in 1924.
- Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vernelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Vernelle.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vernelle alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.