Vertie
Vertie was last recorded in 1966, when 6 babies were given it; 1,548 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vertie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vertie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vertie is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vertie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,542, in 1966; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1916, the peak
Vertie peaked in 1916, when 50 girls were given it, #977 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 6 | #6,542 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,779 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,870 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,284 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,970 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,931 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,634 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,678 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,474 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,804 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 13 | #3,042 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,645 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,130 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,436 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,477 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,374 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,392 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,175 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,113 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,804 | 17.4 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,413 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,729 | 19.1 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,544 | 22.7 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,414 | 26.3 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,443 | 26.0 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,417 | 26.7 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,437 | 25.9 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,772 | 19.8 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,317 | 30.0 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,591 | 22.5 |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,179 | 36.4 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,594 | 22.4 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,392 | 27.7 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,583 | 23.5 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,385 | 28.7 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,270 | 32.0 |
| 1924 | 45 | #1,186 | 36.0 |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,303 | 30.7 |
| 1922 | 47 | #1,123 | 39.1 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,408 | 27.6 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,309 | 30.0 |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,152 | 37.2 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,124 | 38.0 |
| 1917 | 38 | #1,181 | 35.1 |
| 1916 | 50 | #977 | 47.9 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,226 | 33.5 |
| 1914 | 34 | #1,032 | 44.6 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,225 | 35.2 |
| 1912 | 27 | #1,000 | 48.4 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,235 | 35.9 |
| 1910 | 22 | #939 | 55.5 |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,099 | 43.2 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,355 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,136 | 40.8 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,151 | 40.6 |
| 1905 | 24 | #757 | 82.3 |
| 1904 | 14 | #998 | 50.8 |
| 1903 | 22 | #733 | 84.0 |
| 1902 | 20 | #796 | 75.7 |
| 1901 | 15 | #879 | 62.7 |
| 1900 | 16 | #967 | 53.4 |
| 1899 | 11 | #1,030 | 47.2 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,960 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 14 | #894 | 59.8 |
| 1896 | 16 | #842 | 67.3 |
| 1895 | 17 | #787 | 72.8 |
| 1894 | 15 | #811 | 67.3 |
| 1893 | 12 | #898 | 56.4 |
| 1892 | 11 | #954 | 51.8 |
| 1891 | 13 | #793 | 70.1 |
| 1890 | 16 | #691 | 84.0 |
| 1889 | 13 | #754 | 72.9 |
| 1888 | 15 | #689 | 84.0 |
| 1887 | 9 | #856 | 61.7 |
| 1886 | 12 | #689 | 83.0 |
| 1885 | 8 | #837 | 60.1 |
| 1884 | 7 | #926 | 54.3 |
| 1883 | 7 | #815 | 62.3 |
| 1882 | 8 | #737 | 74.2 |
| 1880 | 5 | #941 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vertie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vertie has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 80 years of records.
Girls and boys named Vertie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vertie, and how old are they?
An estimated 199 Americans named Vertie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (13% of everyone recorded); the median is 82 years old and half are between 75 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 280 people named Vertie (263 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 307 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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 Vertie born?
The states with the most babies named Vertie are North Carolina, Texas and Kentucky, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 192 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Texas | 65 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Kentucky | 24 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 18 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Vertie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vertie is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 4.6 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 Vertie 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,641 babies since 1880, Vertie is the most given (59% 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 Vertie
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 Vertie and names like it
- Compare Vertie and VertaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVertie peaked in 1916.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vertie since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Vertie.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Vertie alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with VMost given first.