Vern vs Vernita
American parents have registered 11,982 Verns since 1880, against 4,027 Vernitas. Vern is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Vern Vernita
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 134 years in which either name was published, Vern for 113 years and Vernita for 21 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1880–1966 Vern ahead
- 1969–1982 Vernita ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1989–2025 Vern ahead, apart from 3 short spells
14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Vern | Vernita | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 11,982 | 4,027 |
| Most in one year | 282 | 123 |
| Babies in 2025 | 7 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 3,700 | 2,700 |
| Median age today | 68 | 63 |
| Peak year | 1920 | 1961 |
| Best rank | 359th boys | 972nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 9,714th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1899 |
| Girls / boys | 485 / 11,497 | 4,027 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Verns alive today are over 68; half the Vernitas are over 63. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Vern South Dakota (10.1×), Idaho (8.7×), Nebraska (7.1×)
- Vernita Illinois (5.0×), Tennessee (5.0×), Georgia (4.8×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vern and Vernita.