girls:
7.3k births since 1887
#1910 (67th percentile)
boys:
789 births since 1908
#3798 (17th percentile)
overall:
8.1k births since 1887
#3010 (61st percentile)
The name Vernice is the #3,010 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,079 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 61.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,910 (66.6% percentile) for all time with 7,290 births since 1887. For boys, it ranks #3,798 (17.1% percentile) for all time with 789 births since 1908.
Vernice first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for girls and 1908 for boys). Birth data for Vernice is available in 118 out of the 125 years between 1887 and 2011 (118 years for girls and 62 years for boys). 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 Vernice has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Vernice reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 33.3% percentile (ranked #407) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 182 births per million (ranked 32.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
For boys, Vernice reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #505) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 30 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vernice".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Vernice. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Vernice is pronounced as ver-NEES, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VER-nihs, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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