Verner
Verner reached its high-water mark in 1917 at number 744, and has been recorded 2,134 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2000. About 360 Verners are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Verner boys named Verner
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,134
- Estimated living today
- 360
- Median age today
- 72
- Peak year
- 1917
- Best rank
- 744th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 171 / 1,963
How old the living Verners are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,134 babies given the name since 1881, about 360 are alive — 17 in every hundred. 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 Verners
- Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940)Swedish writer
- Verner Panton (1926–1998)Danish furniture designer
- Verner Weckman (1882–1968)Olympic wrestler
- Verner Järvinen (1870–1941)Finnish athletics competitor
- Verner Lička (born 1954)Czech soccer player and soccer coach
- Verner Blaudzun (born 1946)Danish cyclist
- Verner Eklöf (1897–1955)Finnish football player, bandy player, Nordic combined skier and football manager
People named Verner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Verner is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Verner is most concentrated in Minnesota (18.0×), Georgia (3.7×), Illinois (3.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1917
The most popular boys’ names the year Verner peaked:
Verner 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 | Verner | 289 | 1,724 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,724 who carry it, 289 go by it.
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
Verner 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.