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Vernadean vs Vernell

American parents have registered 10,468 Vernells since 1880, against 26 Vernadeans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vernadean against Vernell, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vernadean Vernell

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

Vernell has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1897 to 2021. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1959, when Vernadean had 6 and Vernell had 137.

Side by side

  Vernadean Vernell
Total US births 2610,468
Most in one year 8215
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 135,100
Median age today 7968
Peak year 19251924
Best rank 3,664th girls543rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19251897
Girls / boys 26 / 07,124 / 3,344

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 Vernells are over 68. That is 11 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: Vernadean and Vernell.