How popular is “Vernessa” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Vernessa” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Vernessa” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1920	5	0.00000221	5	100%
1948	5	0.000001448	5	100%
1949	5	0.000001435	5	100%
1952	9	0.00000237	9	100%
1953	16	0.000004152	16	100%
1954	36	0.000009044	36	100%
1955	37	0.000009215	37	100%
1956	49	0.000011884	49	100%
1957	52	0.000012375	52	100%
1958	49	0.000011853	49	100%
1959	54	0.000012987	54	100%
1960	68	0.00001637	68	100%
1961	36	0.000008691	36	100%
1962	54	0.000013382	54	100%
1963	23	0.000005811	23	100%
1964	36	0.00000926	36	100%
1965	26	0.000007172	26	100%
1966	21	0.000006042	21	100%
1967	23	0.000006775	23	100%
1968	35	0.00001036	35	100%
1969	25	0.000007194	25	100%
1970	21	0.000005823	21	100%
1971	22	0.00000641	22	100%
1972	20	0.000006363	20	100%
1973	11	0.000003646	11	100%
1974	9	0.000002961	9	100%
1975	16	0.000005299	16	100%
1976	9	0.000002966	9	100%
1977	11	0.000003463	11	100%
1978	10	0.000003151	10	100%
1979	12	0.000003607	12	100%
1980	6	0.000001742	6	100%
1981	9	0.000002602	9	100%
1982	10	0.000002851	10	100%
1983	7	0.000002021	7	100%
1984	6	0.00000172	6	100%
1987	7	0.000001941	7	100%
1988	10	0.000002706	10	100%
1989	6	0.000001561	6	100%
1990	5	0.000001265	5	100%
1992	5	0.000001302	5	100%
1994	5	0.000001345	5	100%

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