girls:
485 births since 1890
#5231 (8th percentile)
boys:
11.5k births since 1880
#1076 (77th percentile)
overall:
12k births since 1880
#2407 (69th percentile)
The name Vern is the #2,407 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,969 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 68.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,076 (76.5% percentile) for all time with 11,484 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,231 (8.5% percentile) for all time with 485 births since 1890.
Vern has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1890 for girls). Birth data for Vern is available in 131 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (131 years for boys and 57 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Vern has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Vern reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 40.8% percentile (ranked #317) with 249 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 340 births per million (ranked 17.1% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Vern ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 1.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Vern reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #577) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 36 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vern".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Vern. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Vern is pronounced as vern, which has 1 syllables.
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