Vertis — boys' name

What the Data Says About Vertis

The Social Security Administration has registered 587 babies named Vertis between 1912 and 1987, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Vertis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1987. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Vertis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 333 additional births since 1911.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vertis performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 111 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Vertis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Vertis in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vertis 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 587 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.