Verner
Verner was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 2,134 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Verner by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Verner mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Verner is “a male given name from German, equivalent to English Warner”
Derived from German Werner.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Verner?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,040, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
79 babies in 1917, the peak
Verner peaked in 1917, when 79 babies were given it (70 boys, #747 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #12,040 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,166 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,480 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,716 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,820 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,439 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 5 | #4,525 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,408 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,623 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,677 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,811 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,495 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,484 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,523 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,132 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 22 | #1,672 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,933 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,050 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,014 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,330 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,214 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 23 | #1,596 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,472 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,575 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,573 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,297 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,443 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,979 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,631 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,361 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,294 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,537 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,384 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,309 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 41 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,252 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 40 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,170 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 50 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 47 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,091 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 51 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 59 | #913 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 63 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 65 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 68 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 67 | #803 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 70 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 49 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 61 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 54 | #711 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 44 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 31 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 13 | #976 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,038 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,080 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 10 | #942 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 13 | #773 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,105 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 13 | #696 | 0.10 |
| 1904 | 12 | #720 | 0.09 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,295 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 8 | #924 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 15 | #533 | 0.14 |
| 1900 | 11 | #834 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 9 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 11 | #678 | 0.10 |
| 1896 | 8 | #891 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,075 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 17 | #500 | 0.15 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 12 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 10 | #632 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 6 | #989 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 14 | #522 | 0.13 |
| 1888 | 9 | #752 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 7 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 9 | #691 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 8 | #761 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 5 | #986 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Verner a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,134 Americans recorded as Verner, 8% are girls and 92% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Verner: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Verner, and how old are they?
An estimated 340 Americans named Verner and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 63 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 570 people named Verner (43 women and girls, 527 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 463 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,685 babies since 1880, Verner is the second most given (38% 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 Verner
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 Verner and names like it
- Compare Verner and WernerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVerner peaked in 1917.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Verner since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Verner: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Verner.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Verner alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.