Vernice
Vernice is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 453rd, in 1919.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1923225 births
- Best rank
- #453in 1919
- Since 1887
- 8,079people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,290 girls have been named Vernice in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 225 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 225 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 789 boys have also been given it, 9.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Vernice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 18 | |
| 1890s | 98 | |
| 1900s | 261 | |
| 1910s | 1,191 | |
| 1920s | 1,786 | |
| 1930s | 1,127 | |
| 1940s | 782 | |
| 1950s | 868 | |
| 1960s | 537 | |
| 1970s | 268 | |
| 1980s | 179 | |
| 1990s | 130 | |
| 2000s | 40 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Vernice was the 459th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Vernice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lorainepeak 1922
- Alenepeak 1920
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Marianpeak 1924
- Lorinepeak 1922
- Lavernapeak 1920
- Laverapeak 1925
- Concettapeak 1924
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.