Veralyn

#17,105 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Veralyn has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 1941. In 2025 it ranked #17,105 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1946, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Veralyn, 2025

1 in 663,000

Veralyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Veralyn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,105
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Veralyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Veralyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Veralyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Veralyn was born before 1955 — so the typical Veralyn is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
81
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Veralyn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,727
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,711
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.7%
Peak was 1946 (23)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,965
1946

Spellings of Veralyn

Veralyn is not the most common spelling — Evalyn is, with 22.6% against Veralyn's 0.34%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Veralyn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,105
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,965
1946
Peak year
1946
23 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
146
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Veralyn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Veralyn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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