Verlene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Verlene has been given to 1,874 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1939, with 63 recorded.
Babies named Verlene, 1981
1 in 692,000
Verlene 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Verlene?
Verlene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 692,000
- 5 of 3,459,130 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 334,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 479,538 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Verlene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 479,538 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Verlene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Verlenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Verlene was born before 1941 — so the typical Verlene is around 84 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 27.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 613
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (507).
Is Verlene 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1939 (63)
- Years since peak
- 86
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.4% average annual change
Spellings of Verlene
Verlene is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 34.1% against Verlene's 0.31%.
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 Verlene is used
Across 1910–2025, Verlene was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 201,299 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in 50,000
- 2Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 3Nebraska1 in 50,000
- 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 5Oklahoma1 in 100,000
- 6Texas1 in 100,000
- 7Georgia1 in —
- 8Illinois1 in —
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. Verlene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Verlene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Verlene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Verlene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.