How popular is “Verna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Verna” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Verna” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Verna” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Verna” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Verna” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Verna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Verna” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	46	0.000228306	46		100%
1881	30	0.000155692	30		100%
1882	76	0.000343064	76		100%
1883	108	0.00049782	103	5	91%
1884	87	0.000357347	87		100%
1885	108	0.000448404	108		100%
1886	134	0.00052484	134		100%
1887	129	0.00052144	129		100%
1888	165	0.000550966	165		100%
1889	174	0.000602189	174		100%
1890	244	0.000809553	244		100%
1891	203	0.000708124	203		100%
1892	246	0.000735703	246		100%
1893	292	0.000897845	292		100%
1894	310	0.000915291	310		100%
1895	326	0.000928722	326		100%
1896	326	0.000911929	326		100%
1897	350	0.001008771	350		100%
1898	410	0.001074832	410		100%
1899	329	0.000969832	329		100%
1900	412	0.000915031	412		100%
1901	367	0.00106127	361	6	97%
1902	444	0.001148079	436	8	96%
1903	424	0.001112277	424		100%
1904	434	0.001075629	429	5	98%
1905	494	0.001165309	488	6	98%
1906	533	0.001244016	533		100%
1907	538	0.00115602	538		100%
1908	549	0.001123506	549		100%
1909	588	0.001150181	582	6	98%
1910	626	0.00105974	626		100%
1911	646	0.001002673	639	7	98%
1912	914	0.000925043	914		100%
1913	1046	0.000919876	1038	8	98%
1914	1235	0.000871963	1226	9	99%
1915	1584	0.000864428	1570	14	98%
1916	1729	0.000893809	1713	16	98%
1917	1804	0.000898966	1799	5	99%
1918	1885	0.000868219	1873	12	99%
1919	1835	0.000869567	1816	19	98%
1920	1866	0.000824699	1851	15	98%
1921	1831	0.00078432	1813	18	98%
1922	1714	0.000748748	1693	21	98%
1923	1724	0.000748758	1713	11	99%
1924	1673	0.000702466	1661	12	99%
1925	1628	0.000697724	1613	15	98%
1926	1606	0.000699506	1586	20	98%
1927	1552	0.000669151	1535	17	98%
1928	1471	0.000650615	1458	13	98%
1929	1354	0.000617655	1342	12	98%
1930	1370	0.000616204	1359	11	98%
1931	1227	0.000583067	1213	14	98%
1932	1190	0.000563636	1175	15	97%
1933	1090	0.000545151	1078	12	98%
1934	1050	0.000505582	1040	10	98%
1935	986	0.000471793	979	7	99%
1936	958	0.000461114	950	8	98%
1937	948	0.00044493	934	14	97%
1938	936	0.000423037	927	9	98%
1939	927	0.000420705	927		100%
1940	874	0.000379557	865	9	98%
1941	862	0.000353797	862		100%
1942	876	0.000320666	871	5	99%
1943	889	0.000314962	881	8	98%
1944	739	0.000274713	734	5	99%
1945	727	0.000274039	719	8	98%
1946	742	0.000232216	742		100%
1947	782	0.000217082	777	5	99%
1948	686	0.000198696	681	5	99%
1949	745	0.000213787	736	9	98%
1950	725	0.000206944	719	6	98%
1951	677	0.000183781	667	10	97%
1952	655	0.000172459	655		100%
1953	657	0.000170488	652	5	98%
1954	584	0.000146708	584		100%
1955	627	0.000156161	617	10	97%
1956	612	0.000148434	606	6	98%
1957	613	0.000145878	605	8	97%
1958	546	0.000132079	546		100%
1959	514	0.000123617	509	5	98%
1960	532	0.000128075	532		100%
1961	472	0.000113946	466	6	97%
1962	414	0.000102593	409	5	98%
1963	366	0.000092466	359	7	96%
1964	360	0.000092602	354	6	97%
1965	274	0.000075577	274		100%
1966	286	0.000082287	286		100%
1967	274	0.000080709	274		100%
1968	193	0.000057127	188	5	95%
1969	213	0.000061289	213		100%
1970	202	0.00005601	195	7	93%
1971	177	0.000051568	177		100%
1972	149	0.000047407	149		100%
1973	117	0.000038782	117		100%
1974	106	0.000034868	106		100%
1975	103	0.000034113	103		100%
1976	99	0.000032627	99		100%
1977	77	0.000024241	77		100%
1978	79	0.000024891	74	5	87%
1979	68	0.000020439	68		100%
1980	56	0.000016258	56		100%
1981	78	0.000022547	78		100%
1982	79	0.00002252	79		100%
1983	69	0.000019923	69		100%
1984	46	0.000013185	46		100%
1985	44	0.000012328	44		100%
1986	41	0.000011526	41		100%
1987	40	0.000011094	40		100%
1988	41	0.000011096	41		100%
1989	43	0.000011185	43		100%
1990	34	0.000008602	34		100%
1991	40	0.000010269	40		100%
1992	30	0.00000781	30		100%
1993	42	0.00001114	42		100%
1994	45	0.000012104	45		100%
1995	28	0.000007646	28		100%
1996	21	0.000005758	21		100%
1997	22	0.000006068	22		100%
1998	40	0.000010875	40		100%
1999	32	0.000008663	32		100%
2000	33	0.00000873	33		100%
2001	31	0.000008281	31		100%
2002	27	0.000007223	27		100%
2003	32	0.000008416	32		100%
2004	30	0.000007852	30		100%
2005	28	0.000007282	28		100%
2006	28	0.000007078	28		100%
2007	26	0.000006504	26		100%
2008	37	0.000009413	37		100%
2009	16	0.000004188	16		100%
2010	21	0.000005682	21		100%
2011	29	0.000007928	29		100%
2012	26	0.000007109	26		100%
2013	32	0.000008778	32		100%
2014	37	0.000009983	37		100%
2015	25	0.000006755	25		100%
2016	43	0.000011721	43		100%
2017	35	0.000009787	35		100%
2018	37	0.000010524	37		100%
2019	25	0.000007203	25		100%
2020	29	0.000008681	29		100%
2021	24	0.000007084	24		100%
2022	38	0.000011232	38		100%
2023	25	0.00000755	25		100%
2024	27	0.000008112	27		100%

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