Vernita
Vernita was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 4,027 Americans have been recorded with it between 1899 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,640 Americans named Vernita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 55 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vernita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vernita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #20,042, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
123 babies in 1961, the peak
Vernita peaked in 1961, when 123 girls were given it, #976 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #20,042 | 2.7 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,340 | 4.5 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,477 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,588 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,600 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,635 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,961 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,821 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,532 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,883 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 21 | #4,117 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,639 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,325 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,418 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,546 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,339 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,721 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,649 | 21.7 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,577 | 22.4 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,384 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,213 | 27.4 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,542 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,837 | 35.0 |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,800 | 34.1 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,062 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,723 | 34.2 |
| 1971 | 61 | #1,585 | 36.7 |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,388 | 43.5 |
| 1969 | 69 | #1,401 | 40.9 |
| 1968 | 67 | #1,374 | 40.8 |
| 1967 | 83 | #1,171 | 50.3 |
| 1966 | 77 | #1,231 | 45.5 |
| 1965 | 85 | #1,167 | 48.2 |
| 1964 | 92 | #1,152 | 48.6 |
| 1963 | 108 | #1,035 | 56.0 |
| 1962 | 106 | #1,053 | 53.9 |
| 1961 | 123 | #976 | 60.9 |
| 1960 | 104 | #1,056 | 51.4 |
| 1959 | 108 | #1,021 | 53.4 |
| 1958 | 96 | #1,073 | 47.7 |
| 1957 | 97 | #1,061 | 47.4 |
| 1956 | 115 | #942 | 57.3 |
| 1955 | 104 | #981 | 53.2 |
| 1954 | 112 | #911 | 57.7 |
| 1953 | 87 | #1,038 | 46.2 |
| 1952 | 71 | #1,127 | 38.3 |
| 1951 | 75 | #1,075 | 41.6 |
| 1950 | 70 | #1,107 | 40.9 |
| 1949 | 65 | #1,133 | 38.0 |
| 1948 | 58 | #1,194 | 34.2 |
| 1947 | 54 | #1,235 | 30.5 |
| 1946 | 48 | #1,255 | 30.5 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,480 | 23.7 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,574 | 21.1 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,364 | 26.5 |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,152 | 35.5 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,537 | 22.3 |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,202 | 33.2 |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,129 | 38.3 |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,199 | 34.4 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,195 | 34.8 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,204 | 34.6 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,352 | 28.6 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,260 | 31.6 |
| 1933 | 42 | #1,084 | 41.7 |
| 1932 | 40 | #1,146 | 37.5 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,162 | 36.6 |
| 1930 | 36 | #1,273 | 32.0 |
| 1929 | 45 | #1,106 | 40.3 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,176 | 37.3 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,481 | 26.0 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,322 | 30.4 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,294 | 31.2 |
| 1924 | 30 | #1,564 | 24.0 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,386 | 28.2 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,282 | 31.6 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,475 | 26.0 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,308 | 30.0 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,599 | 23.0 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,358 | 28.5 |
| 1917 | 34 | #1,260 | 31.4 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,863 | 18.2 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,616 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,252 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,024 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,347 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,182 | 16.7 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,600 | 25.9 |
| 1907 | 6 | #2,043 | 18.8 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,937 | 20.3 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,716 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,093 | 42.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vernita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vernita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 92 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vernita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vernita, and how old are they?
2,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 66% of the 4,027 Americans ever recorded as Vernita. The median Vernita alive today is 64 years old; half are between 55 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 2,496 people named Vernita (2,493 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,907 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 191 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,340 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 810 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 278 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13 |
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 Vernita born?
The states with the most babies named Vernita are Illinois, Georgia and Tennessee, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 316 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 171 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 136 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 110 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 110 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 76 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 54 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 46 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 39 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Vernita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vernita is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 1.6 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 Vernita 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,288 babies since 1880, Vernita is the most given (55% 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 Vernita
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 Vernita and names like it
- Compare Vernita and VernettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sVernita peaked in 1961.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vernita since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Vernita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vernita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.