Vern
Vern reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 359, and has been recorded 11,982 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 9,714th. About 3,700 Verns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vern boys named Vern
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,982
- Estimated living today
- 3,700
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 359th
- Rank in 2025
- 9,714th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 485 / 11,497
How old the living Verns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,982 babies given the name since 1880, about 3,700 are alive — 31 in every hundred. Roughly 50 of them are children and 2,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 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.
Notable Verns
- Vern Schuppan (born 1943)Australian racing driver
- Vern Fleming (born 1961)American basketball player
- Vern Mikkelsen (1928–2013)American basketball player
- Vern Buchanan (born 1951)U.S. Representative from Florida
- Vern Law (born 1930)American baseball player
People named Vern with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Vern is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vern is most concentrated in South Dakota (10.1×), Idaho (8.7×), Nebraska (7.1×), Utah (6.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Vern peaked:
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Vern 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.