Verlan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Verlan has been given to 324 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 1927, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Verlan, 1968
1 in 676,000
Verlan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Verlan?
Verlan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1968
- 1 in 676,000
- 5 of 3,378,301 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 348,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1968
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 468,333 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Verlan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1968 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 468,333 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Verlan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Verlans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Verlan was born before 1937 — so the typical Verlan is around 88 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 72
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (96).
Is Verlan 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 1927 (16)
- Years since peak
- 98
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.3% average annual change
Spellings of Verlan
Verlan is not the most common spelling — Vernon is, with 31.4% against Verlan's 0.07%.
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 Verlan is used
Across 1910–2025, Verlan was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 461,105 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Iowa1 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. Verlan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Verlan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Verlan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Verlan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.