Verne
The boy's name Verne has been in the national records since 1880, with 6,719 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1990. About 1,500 Vernes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Verne boys named Verne
Girls and boys called Verne
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 878 girls and 5,841 boys in all, and in 1968 the split was 0 to 26.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 76 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
- 6,719
- Estimated living today
- 1,500
- Median age today
- 72
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 454th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 878 / 5,841
How old the living Vernes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,719 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,500 are alive — 22 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1953 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 Vernes
- Verne Troyer (1969–2018)American actor
- Verne Gagne (1926–2015)American professional wrestler and football player
People named Verne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Verne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Verne is most concentrated in South Dakota (9.7×), Iowa (8.1×), Nebraska (5.6×), Kansas (4.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular boys’ names the year Verne peaked:
Verne among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Verne | 179 | 225 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Verne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.