Vernice — unisex name

What the Data Says About Vernice

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,290 babies named Vernice between 1887 and 2011, spanning 125 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vernice currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 225 babies received it in a single year. Vernice is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 789 additional births since 1908.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vernice performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,786 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Vernice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 346 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Vernice in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vernice 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 7,290 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.