girls:
370 births since 1892
#5346 (6th percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1894
#2947 (36th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1892
#5630 (27th percentile)
The name Vernal is the #5,630 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,158 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 27.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,947 (35.7% percentile) for all time with 1,788 births since 1894. For girls, it ranks #5,346 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 370 births since 1892.
Vernal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (1892 for girls and 1894 for boys). Birth data for Vernal is available in 93 out of the 114 years between 1892 and 2005 (89 years for boys and 42 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 Vernal has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2005, 100.0% of babies named Vernal were boys. Interestingly, until around 1898, the name was more popular for girls (63.0% girls from 1892 to 1897), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (83.4% boys from 1898 to 2005).
For boys, Vernal reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 8.8% percentile (ranked #458) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 53 births per million (ranked 8.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
For girls, Vernal reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #596) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 38 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1962.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vernal".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Vernal is pronounced as VER-nuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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