Vernie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Vernie

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,958 babies named Vernie between 1880 and 1978, spanning 99 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vernie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1978. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 123 babies received it in a single year. Vernie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,760 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vernie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 880 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Vernie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 303 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Vernie in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vernie 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 3,958 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.