girls:
4.3k births since 1880
#2627 (54th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1880
#4193 (46th percentile)
The name Verona is the #4,193 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,270 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 45.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,627 (54.0% percentile) for all time with 4,270 births since 1880.
Verona has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Verona is available in 127 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Verona reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 17.6% percentile (ranked #492) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 207 births per million (ranked 16.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Verona ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 5.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Verona".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Verona. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.2% confident that Verona is pronounced as ver-OH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vuh-ROH-nuh, at 10.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like V ER0 OW1 N AH0) 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.
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