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Verda

Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Verda has been given to 8,069 babies in the U.S. since 1882. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 283 recorded.

Babies named Verda, 1999

1 in 738,000

Verda over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Verda: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Verda means

Verda is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Verda is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,062 girls were recorded with the name Verda between 1882 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 283 in 1918; its best national rank was #351 in 1898.

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Verda between 1916 and 1916. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1916; its best national rank was #3,487 in 1916.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Verda?

Verda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 738,000
5 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
511,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Verda 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 1999 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 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Verda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Verdas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Verda was born before 1922 — so the typical Verda is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.46%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
693
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Choose a decade

1920s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (2,120).

Is Verda 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (283)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#351
1898

Spellings of Verda

Verda is not the most common spelling — Vera is, with 22.8% against Verda's 1.2%.

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.

Where Verda is used

Across 1910–2025, Verda was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 34,059 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Idaho1 in 5,882
  2. 2Kansas1 in 7,143
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 7,692
  4. 4Utah1 in 7,692
  5. 5Iowa1 in 8,333
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 9,091
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 10,000
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Verda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Verda around the world

Where Verda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2024–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Verda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#351
1898
Peak year
1918
283 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
8,062
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,487
1916
Peak year
1916
7 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1916
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Verda

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

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Names with a curve like Verda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Verda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Verda

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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