Verner
Verner is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 500th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191770 births
- Best rank
- #500in 1894
- Since 1881
- 2,134people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,963 boys have been named Verner in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 70 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 70 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 171 girls have also been given it, 8.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Verner | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 52 | |
| 1890s | 85 | |
| 1900s | 103 | |
| 1910s | 468 | |
| 1920s | 503 | |
| 1930s | 272 | |
| 1940s | 201 | |
| 1950s | 141 | |
| 1960s | 83 | |
| 1970s | 35 | |
| 1980s | 10 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Verner was the 747th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Verner
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Chalmerpeak 1918
- Albinpeak 1919
- Elziepeak 1917
- Earlepeak 1918
- Vernepeak 1919
- Waldopeak 1915
- Newmanpeak 1921
- Oralpeak 1917
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.