girls:
4k births since 1880
#2744 (52nd percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1880
#2401 (48th percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1880
#3280 (58th percentile)
The name Vernie is the #3,280 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,718 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 57.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,744 (52.0% percentile) for all time with 3,958 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,401 (47.6% percentile) for all time with 2,760 births since 1880.
Vernie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Vernie is available in 106 out of the 112 years between 1880 and 1991 (101 years for boys and 94 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 Vernie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (58.9% of all recorded births). In 1991, 0.0% of babies named Vernie were girls. Interestingly, until around 1946, the name was more popular for girls (63.4% girls from 1880 to 1945), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (61.9% boys from 1946 to 1991).
For girls, Vernie reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 20.6% percentile (ranked #455) with 113 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 193 births per million (ranked 13.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
For boys, Vernie reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 13.7% percentile (ranked #478) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 159 births per million (ranked 7.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vernie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Vernie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Vernie is pronounced as VER-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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