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Verlon

Verlon reached its high-water mark in 1939 at number 888, and has been recorded 2,024 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2001. About 700 Verlons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Verlon boys named Verlon

Girls and boys called Verlon

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 326 girls and 1,698 boys in all, and in 1960 the split was 0 to 27.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 39 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,024
Estimated living today
700
Median age today
69
Peak year
1939
Best rank
888th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1913
Girls / boys
326 / 1,698

How old the living Verlons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,024 babies given the name since 1913, about 700 are alive — 35 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Verlon is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Verlon is most concentrated in Arkansas (28.3×), Alabama (21.7×), Georgia (3.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1939

The most popular boys’ names the year Verlon peaked:

All the names of 1939

Related names

Verlon against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.