girls:
171 births since 1913
#5545 (3rd percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1881
#2835 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1881
#5653 (27th percentile)
The name Verner is the #5,653 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,134 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 26.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,835 (38.1% percentile) for all time with 1,963 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,545 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 171 births since 1913.
Verner first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Verner is available in 93 out of the 120 years between 1881 and 2000 (93 years for boys and 21 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 Verner has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Verner reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 12.6% percentile (ranked #452) with 73 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 136 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
For girls, Verner reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #587) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 18 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1952.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Verner".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Verner.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Verner", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Verner.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Verner. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.5% confident that Verner is pronounced as VER-ner, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ver-NER, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Verner? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Verner. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Verner, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like V ER1 N ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker