Vernice
Vernice was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 8,079 Americans have been recorded with it between 1887 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,640 Americans named Vernice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 58 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vernice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vernice mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vernice is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vernice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,419, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
245 babies in 1923, the peak
Vernice peaked in 1923, when 245 babies were given it (225 girls, #459 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #19,419 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,041 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,526 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,902 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,529 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,264 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,772 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,235 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,992 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 8 | #10,524 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,493 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,081 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,474 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,467 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,936 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,860 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,531 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,308 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,322 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,447 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,276 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,326 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,201 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,089 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,953 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,849 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,045 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,094 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,228 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,402 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,152 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,103 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,306 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,971 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,372 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,519 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,053 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,774 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,597 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,825 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 53 | #1,546 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 59 | #1,481 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 59 | #1,461 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 62 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 70 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 86 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 85 | #1,155 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 83 | #1,167 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 81 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 94 | #1,041 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 93 | #1,018 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 88 | #1,031 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 78 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 86 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 94 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 95 | #913 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 76 | #1,010 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 86 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 64 | #1,069 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 68 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 84 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 79 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 69 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 84 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 77 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 89 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 87 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 95 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 106 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 110 | #620 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 113 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 112 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1932 | 135 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1931 | 138 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 142 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1929 | 121 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 161 | #551 | 0.14 |
| 1927 | 179 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1926 | 179 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1925 | 169 | #555 | 0.14 |
| 1924 | 176 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1923 | 225 | #459 | 0.19 |
| 1922 | 209 | #476 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 197 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1920 | 170 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1919 | 214 | #453 | 0.19 |
| 1918 | 158 | #568 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 137 | #580 | 0.13 |
| 1916 | 147 | #551 | 0.14 |
| 1915 | 151 | #507 | 0.15 |
| 1914 | 117 | #521 | 0.15 |
| 1913 | 87 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1912 | 78 | #553 | 0.14 |
| 1911 | 53 | #591 | 0.13 |
| 1910 | 49 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 29 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1908 | 36 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1907 | 36 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1906 | 30 | #677 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 31 | #641 | 0.11 |
| 1904 | 23 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 14 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 22 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 20 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 20 | #857 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 12 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 17 | #839 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,032 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 19 | #753 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,583 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 14 | #823 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 10 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,268 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,300 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vernice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,079 Americans recorded as Vernice, 90% are girls and 10% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vernice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vernice, and how old are they?
2,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 33% of the 8,079 Americans ever recorded as Vernice. The median Vernice alive today is 69 years old; half are between 58 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 3,006 people named Vernice (2,772 women and girls, 234 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,269 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 523 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,270 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 509 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 75 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Vernice born?
The states with the most babies named Vernice are Mississippi, Texas and North Carolina, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 346 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Texas | 333 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 322 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 286 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Virginia | 278 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 243 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Arkansas | 231 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 220 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 204 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 147 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Vernice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vernice is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 2.3 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 Vernice 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 234,922 babies since 1880, Vernice is the second most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 738 babies recorded by SSA was a Vernice (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Vernice
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 Vernice and names like it
- Compare Vernice and VeronicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sVernice peaked in 1923.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vernice since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Vernice.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vernice alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.