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Verla

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Verla has been given to 6,190 babies in the U.S. since 1890. 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 1922, with 199 recorded.

Babies named Verla, 1983

1 in 385,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Verla: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Verla means

Verla is a given name.

The naming story behind Verla

Wikidata records Verla as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q114703156, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,190 girls were recorded with the name Verla between 1890 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 199 in 1922; its best national rank was #490 in 1922.

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 Verla?

Verla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983
1 in 385,000
9 of 3,463,011 births
Among girls only
1 in 186,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1983
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
266,710 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Verla 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 1983 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 266,710 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Verla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Verlas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Verla was born before 1929 — so the typical Verla is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
715
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (1,779).

Is Verla 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 1922 (199)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#490
1922

Spellings of Verla

Verla is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 19.2% against Verla'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.

Where Verla is used

Across 1910–2025, Verla was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 2,439 girls, against 1 in 32,954 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

041 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Idaho1 in 2,439
  2. 2Iowa1 in 5,000
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 6,250
  4. 4Kansas1 in 6,667
  5. 5Utah1 in 7,692
  6. 6South Dakota1 in 8,333
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 9,091
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 16,667

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. Verla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Verla

People whose public names include Verla, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Verla 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
#490
1922
Peak year
1922
199 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
6,190
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Verla

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

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Names with a curve like Verla

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

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Sibling names for Verla

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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