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Vernadette vs Vernon

American parents have registered 148,389 Vernons since 1880, against 65 Vernadettes. Vernon is still ahead, with 133 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vernadette against Vernon, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vernadette Vernon

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

Vernon 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 1978, when Vernadette had 6 and Vernon had 629.

Side by side

  Vernadette Vernon
Total US births 65148,389
Most in one year 93,199
Babies in 2025 under 5133
Estimated living today 6056,000
Median age today 5864
Peak year 19591920
Best rank 4,300th girls65th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,382nd
First recorded 19591880
Girls / boys 65 / 01,976 / 146,413

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 Vernons alive today are over 64; half the Vernadettes are over 58. That is 6 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: Vernadette and Vernon.