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Verna vs Vernadean

American parents have registered 69,638 Vernas since 1880, against 26 Vernadeans. Verna is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Verna against Vernadean, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Verna Vernadean

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

Verna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1959, when Verna had 514 and Vernadean had 6.

Side by side

  Verna Vernadean
Total US births 69,63826
Most in one year 1,8858
Babies in 2025 44under 5
Estimated living today 18,00013
Median age today 7279
Peak year 19181925
Best rank 125th girls3,664th girls
Rank in 2025 3,459thunranked
First recorded 18801925
Girls / boys 69,113 / 52526 / 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 Vernadeans alive today are over 79; half the Vernas are over 72. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Verna and Vernadean.