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Verlie

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Verlie has been given to 2,460 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1917, with 77 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.

Babies named Verlie, 1970

1 in 721,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Verlie over time

In 1970, Verlie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18871970

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.

Verlie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Verlie means

Verlie is a given name.

The naming story behind Verlie

Wikidata records Verlie as a given name. The entity identifier is Q136807149, 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, 2,282 girls were recorded with the name Verlie between 1887 and 1970. Its highest annual count was 77 in 1917; its best national rank was #599 in 1904.

In the United States, 178 boys were recorded with the name Verlie between 1913 and 1951. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1920; its best national rank was #2,448 in 1915.

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 Verlie?

Verlie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1970, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1970
1 in 721,000
5 of 3,606,302 births
Among girls only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1970
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,941 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Verlie 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 1970 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 499,941 children born in 1970 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Verlie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Verlies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Verlie was born before 1924 — so the typical Verlie is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
183
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Choose a decade

1920s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (585).

Is Verlie 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 1917 (77)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#599
1904

Spellings of Verlie

Verlie is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 32.7% against Verlie's 0.28%.

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 Verlie is used

Across 1910–2025, Verlie was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 100,906 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 33,333
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 100,000
  7. 7West Virginia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Verlie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Verlie around the world

Where Verlie 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.

  • South Australia
    1946–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Verlie 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
—
Best rank ever
#599
1904
Peak year
1917
77 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
1970
All-time count
2,282
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,448
1915
Peak year
1920
12 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1951
All-time count
178
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Verlie

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

VerenaVerityVeronaMellieBrylieAdalieVersieEmelieVerdieVernonBailieCaylieVertieKeelieMallieVallieBaylieAmalieKailieVernieVerniaVereniceVeronikaHarlie

Names with a curve like Verlie

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

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Sibling names for Verlie

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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