Verlene
Verlene is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 890th, in 1939.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193963 births
- Best rank
- #890in 1939
- Since 1915
- 1,874people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,874 girls have been named Verlene in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1939, with 63 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 63 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1930s alone account for 27%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1939, its biggest year
Verlene was the 890th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1939 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Betty and Shirley. See all of 1939.
Names that rose and fell with Verlene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Merlenepeak 1940
- Beverleypeak 1938
- Delorispeak 1947
- Darlynepeak 1935
- Lavonnepeak 1935
- Earlenepeak 1947
- Arlenepeak 1934
- Gearldinepeak 1935
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.