Vernette
Vernette was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 1,254 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vernette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vernette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,816, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1920, the peak
Vernette peaked in 1920, when 30 girls were given it, #1,508 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #13,816 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,771 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,380 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,200 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,135 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,984 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,712 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,412 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,270 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,030 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | #8,731 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,409 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,099 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,528 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,571 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,411 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,214 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,837 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,395 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,829 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,345 | 14.8 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,360 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,601 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,245 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,242 | 13.8 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,593 | 10.4 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,503 | 10.9 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,557 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,999 | 14.9 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,721 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,183 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,119 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,263 | 11.9 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,686 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,336 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 24 | #2,011 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,123 | 13.0 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,858 | 15.8 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,721 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,591 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,094 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,660 | 19.4 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,976 | 14.8 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,660 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,412 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,411 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,439 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,578 | 22.6 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,797 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,511 | 23.8 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,727 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,390 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,632 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,871 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,103 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,093 | 15.2 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,780 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,666 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,249 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,641 | 22.2 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,402 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,835 | 19.1 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,381 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,191 | 14.6 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,508 | 25.0 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,695 | 21.2 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,958 | 17.3 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,843 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,684 | 21.1 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,878 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,624 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,163 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,346 | 14.3 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,807 | 22.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vernette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vernette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vernette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vernette, and how old are they?
An estimated 619 Americans named Vernette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 722 people named Vernette (710 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 722 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 4,515 babies since 1880, Vernette is the second most given (28% 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 Vernette
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 Vernette and names like it
- Compare Vernette and VernettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sVernette peaked in 1920.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vernette since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Vernette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vernette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.