Verdun
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Verdun has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 25 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.
Babies named Verdun, 1922
1 in 458,000
Verdun over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Verdun over time
In 1922, Verdun went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Verdun?
Verdun had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1922
- 1 in 458,000
- 5 of 2,289,103 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 218,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1922
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 317,338 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Verdun sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1922 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 317,338 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Verdun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Verduns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Verdun was born before 1918 — so the typical Verdun is around 107 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 82.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 82.7% of all recorded uses (67).
Is Verdun 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 (25)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 50.6% average annual change
Spellings of Verdun
Verdun is not the most common spelling — Vernon is, with 87.4% against Verdun's 0.05%.
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 Verdun is used
Across 1910–2025, Verdun was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,528,694 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Verdun has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Verdun around the world
Where Verdun 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.
- France1916–1917#513in 1917
- South Australia1945–1962#548in 1962
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Verdun by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Verdun
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Verdun
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.